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Friday, July 28, 2017, 12:09 PM

The local president of Black Lives Matter is calling out the head of the NYPD sergeants union for continuing to support a Bronx cop criminally indicted for killing a mentally ill woman.

"Since the hours after Deborah Danner's killing Ed Mullins has been proclaiming Sgt. Hugh Barry's innocence, Hawk Newsome, president of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, said in a statement. He has insulted the mayor and publicly degraded the police commissioner.

In May, Bronx prosecutors indicted Barry on murder charges for fatally shooting 66-year-old Danner after she began swinging a bat at cops inside her Pugsley Ave. home in Norwood on October 18.

It is because of people like Ed Mullins that we cannot move closer to healing the divide between police and communities of color," said Newsome.

Members of the Sergeants Benevolent Association have raised over $125,000 to support Barry's legal fees through a GoFundMe page, proclaimed his innocence and received support from officers across the country.

Barry, 31, was sued in 2012 and 2014 for assaulting two New Yorkers. The city settled those cases for $25,000 and $10,000, respectively.

The SBA has launched an online campaign titled, "There's NO We in Barry, that features short videos of cops from Milwaukee to Los Angeles pledging their support for the indicted cop.

"Some officers deserve protection," Newsome said. However, defending this man sends a terrible message to black communities. It sends a message to America that cops are never wrong.

Barry has been suspended without pay, pending the outcome of the criminal case, by the NYPD.

"No different than any American Mr. Newsome is entitled to his thoughts, Mullins said in a statement to the Daily News. If Mr. Newsome is sincerely interested in working toward meaningful solutions that would help bring peace, trust and bridge the divide between communities of color and law enforcement I would be more than happy to meet privately with him.

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