NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Things got heated between the city’s top cop at a police union head calling for his resignation in wake of several incidents in which officials took no action after getting doused by water.After speaking at Monday’s NYPD promotion ceremony, Police Commissioner James O’Neill, referred to sergeants’ union head Ed Mullins as a “keyboard gangster."“Quite frankly, I haven’t seen that guy around at any department function," O’Neill told reporters. "He’s a bit of keyboard gangster. We’re here to keep the city safe. We’re here to keep the cops safe and if you want to second guess us, think we don’t care about cops, man, you are dead wrong. You’re in the wrong business. He should re-think his position.”Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, has mocked O’Neill in the past, referring to him as “O’Kneel" on Twitter, suggesting the commissioner was condoning disrespect toward cops after videos emerged showing jeering people dumping water on sheepish police officers.“The politically motivated agenda of Police Commissioner O’Neill puts all police officers in harm’s way and makes what was once the proudest police department in the world a laughingstock,” Mullins said in a press release on July 22.Mullins responded to O’Neill’s comments on Monday.“He’s a funny guy," Mullins said. “I don’t have time to have beers with the Commissioner. I’m too busy defending cops he indicts for murder and uses as political pawns. The job is in the street not police functions.”Mullins was referring to Sgt. Hugh Barry's indictment for fatally shooting Deborah Danner, 66, a mentally ill woman who attacked him with a bat and then scissors in her apartment in 2016.
A decision on whether he will keep his job is still pending.