Bill de Blasio actually said...

"Mayor Bill de Blasio has also said that he will be there too despite the fact that there are some who have said that he should stay away because of the emotions involved and the divide."

"the mayor, Bill de Blasio asking once again today for New Yorkers to put the memories and the families and the extended NYPD family of two murdered first for now to let passion cool and tempers mend a..."

"I'm asking everyone -- and this is across the spectrum -- to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations. Until these funerals are passed, let's focus just on these families and what they've lost."

"We've had to literally train them as families have all over this city for decades in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him."