NYC Police Union’s Lynch Emerges as De Blasio’s Chief Antagonist
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Patrick Lynch, the New York police union chief emerging as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s biggest antagonist, got his taste for labor activism while walking the picket line with his father, a subway motorman from Queens, during the 1980 transit strike.
The youngest officer ever to head the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association when he was elected in 1999, Lynch, now 51, has “union blood coursing through his veins,” according to his official biography.