Mayor Michael Bloomberg has blasted the use of a controversial movie portraying American Muslims as extremists to help train New York police officers.
The mayor said police chiefs used ‘terrible judgment’ in screening The Third Jihad to nearly 1,500 recruits.
‘As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it,’ added Mr. Bloomberg.
The movie – which was played during counter-terrorism training seminars – features scenes of Christians being shot in the head, car bombs exploding and a doctored picture of a black Islamic flag is shown flying over the White House
Mr Bloomberg said neither he nor Police Commissioner Ray Kelly knew about the film being shown.
The movie was screened on a continuous loop while officers were signing in for counter-terrorism training from October to December 2010, according to police documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank at New York University.
As many as 1,489 officers, including 68 lieutenants, may have seen it, the documents say.
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1.Image: In the video, the White House is shown with a black flag flying overhead and the words Islam Will Dominate
2. File photo of New York City Mayor Bloomberg with former mayor Giuliani in New York
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