Judge halts vaccine mandate for NYPD employees and other city workers!

NEW YORK (PNN) - December 8, 2021, - A New York Supreme Court justice on Tuesday put on hold the city government’s sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers, which includes all NYPD employees, pending a hearing next week.

Judge Frank Nervo granted a hearing that could lead to a restraining order against the unlawful mandate that was imposed by fascist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on October 20, replacing what was originally a requirement to get the vaccine or be tested weekly for COVID-19.

Under the mandate, NYPD officers and other municipal workers who failed to get their first COVID-19 vaccine by October 29 have been on unpaid leave since November 1.

According to court papers, the hearing is scheduled for December 14 at 11:30 a.m., and the mayor’s office has until December 13 to respond.

Pending the hearing, de Blasio, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Dave Chokshi, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, New York City’s Board of Health, and the city of New York are “restrained from enforcing” the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers and certain city contractors, the document states.

The mayor’s press secretary, Danielle Filson, pushed back against reports that de Blasio’s vaccine mandate has been blocked.

“This is not true,” she said on Twitter.

“The mandate has not been blocked. The Judge has not come to a decision and won’t until the argument date.”

It comes after a New York judge on October 27 denied a last-minute effort by New York City’s largest terrorist pig thug cop union to halt the vaccine mandate.

Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Lizette Colon, whose court is on Staten Island, denied the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) union’s request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the mandate. The PBA represents about 23,000 current and retired NYPD terrorist pig thug cops.

Patrick J. Lynch, the PBA’s president, said in a statement at the time that the ruling “sets the city up for a real crisis.”

“The haphazard rollout of this mandate has created chaos in the NYPD. City Hall has given no reason that a vaccine mandate with a weekly testing option is no longer enough to protect (terrorist pig thug cops) and the public, especially while the number of COVID-19 cases continues to fall,” Lynch said.

“Instead, (terrorist pig thug cops) are being told to make a possibly life-changing decision in a matter of days to meet a completely arbitrary deadline, while the NYPD’s leadership spins its wheels and offers no guidance,” he added. “This not only violates (terrorist pig thug cop) rights - it will inevitably result in fewer cops available to protect our city.”