De Blasio blasts NYPD union for engaging in ‘racist activities’

Mayor de Blasio labeled one of the city’s largest police unions as “racist” on Tuesday while discussing that the NYPD found “no criminality” behind the tainted milkshakes that sickened three cops.

“The SBA leadership has engaged in racist activities so many times, I can’t even count,” de Blasio said of the Sergeants Benevolent Association at a City Hall news conference, on Tuesday.

“I’ve been fighting with these unions from day one. These police union leaders, not all of them, but too many of them, stand in the way of progress.”

The mayor claimed that the SBA and other union leaders have failed to help unite the city amid recent unrest and protests in the city.

The comments came as it was revealed the shakes from Shake Shack that sickened NYPD cops in Lower Manhattan on Monday night were apparently tainted as a result of improper rinsing of a cleaning solution.

“After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by [Shake Shack’s] employees,” Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted.

The result of the probe led the Police Benevolent Association and the Detectives’ Endowment Association to retract statements suggesting that the three cops were intentionally poisoned.

That’s when De Blasio praised Harrison “for so rapidly getting the truth out” and blasted the unions for jumping to conclusions.

“I would think the unions would trust the NYPD to find the truth,” de Blasio said.

“But the unions, these ­union leaders don’t want the truth, they just want to sow division and we have to figure out what the limits are on their right to do that.”