Graduating Police Boo NYC Mayor At Ceremony

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was reportedly booed while speaking at a recent New York Police Department graduation ceremony following the deaths of two officers.

De Blasio took the stage in front of 884 graduating members of the New York City Police Department Monday at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden arena when he began receiving boos and heckles from the crowd.

Although the mayor spoke positively about the police department, his speech at the event was marred with boos mixed in with applause.

"You will confront all the problems that plague our society," de Blasio said during his speech. "Problems that you didn't create."

The unruly response to de Blasio came one day after police officers attending the funeral of slain officer Rafael Ramos turned their backs on de Blasio as he made his speech at the Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens.

Thousands of police officers gathered at Ramos' funeral, and media crews covering the somber event caught some officers gathered outside of the church turning their backs to the large screen as de Blasio took to the stage.

The NYC mayor is the center of tense relations between the mayor's office and the local police department after Ramos and his partner, Wenjian Liu, were gunned down in Brooklyn two weekends ago. The men were reportedly gunned down by a suspect seeking retribution for the deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown and Eric Gardner, and police have accused de Blasio of taking the side of protesters instead of supporting the police department.