NYC Police Union Fails to Get Judge to Block Vaccine Mandate

New York City’s largest police union failed to persuade a state court judge to block Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate from taking effect next week.

State Supreme Court Judge Lizette Colon on Wednesday denied a request by the 40,000-member Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York for a temporary restraining order, citing a 2019 state appellate ruling that upheld a vaccine mandate for measles.

The New York mandate requires all municipal workers, including cops and firefighters, to have gotten at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1. The police union sued to block the mandate on Monday, asking the court to bar it from being enforced while its suit is pending.

Instead, Colon ordered a Nov. 12 hearing and said city officials should be ready to refute claims that the mandate is “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion.”