Sentences with phrase «brush off public»

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Thompson also brushed off calls for a special prosecutor in the police shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man fatally shot by a rookie cop in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex.

Stumping in a sweltering Brooklyn subway station this morning, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio brushed off the emerging chatter that his mayoral campaign, once launched with such promise, is stagnating.

When the memo was leaked to the press, MDEQ brushed off Del Toral's and the public's concerns with a statement that told everyone to «relax.»

State Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents dismissed parent complaints, and Secretary Arne Duncan brushed them off as the whining of «white suburban moms» who were disappointed to learn that their child was not as brilliant as they thought and their public school was not as good as they thought.