New York City’s health commissioner blew off an urgent NYPD request for 500,000 surgical masks as the coronavirus crisis mounted — telling a high-ranking police official that “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” the New York Post reports.
Dr. Oxiris Barbot made the remark during a brief phone conversation in late March with NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, sources familiar with the matter told the Post Wednesday.