#De Blasio won’t say when anti-cop graffiti will be removed from Dinkins building

Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to say when city workers would clean graffiti that says “F–k cops” and “ACAB” or “All cops are bastards” from the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building in lower Manhattan– even though Dept. of Transportation workers immediately restored the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower after it was defaced twice last week.

“The graffiti is just not acceptable and I want to be very clear, graffiti on public buildings will be removed period,” de Blasio said when asked about the ugly scrawling on the Dinkins building and surrounding municipal property.

“There are some challenges just technically with the surfaces,” de Blasio said about the delay.

“Cleaning off the graffiti in this case with the particular stone as I understand it comes with a lot more work and complication. One would think paint on a street is a much simpler matter,” he said.

He refused to provide a timeline for the work.

“It’s upsetting that the city has no plan to remove the horrifying graffiti from the David Dinkins Municipal Building,” local resident Jamal Roberts told The Post.

“It’s been over 30 days and the excuse that the stone is challenging is an insult to the legacy of the first African American mayor.  It truly is the tale of two graffitis. The mayor is only concerned with cleaning the one that fits his political narrative,” said Roberts, 35.

DOT workers scrubbed red paint poured on the bright yellow letters of the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower just 24 hours after a man defaced the tribute last week and again when four people were arrested for dumping blue paint on it just days later.

No arrests have been made for the defacement of the Dinkins or nearby public buildings.

“Are we surprised? That just shows how he’s been since the beginning,” a police source told The Post.

“He’s never been a big fan of the NYPD or the officers under him. That’s why crime is up because the cops know they have a mayor that doesn’t care,” the source said.

The graffiti appeared on the municipal property including the historic Tweed Court House and Surrogate’s Court on Chambers Street when protesters began occupying City Hall Park last month to demand $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD’s budget.

Even though the mayor approved the cuts, the encampment remains.

“There is a balance we always strike between the right to protest and especially public safety and I’ve always put public safety first while respecting constitutional rights,” de Blasio said, without mentioning the protester who attacked a Post reporter with a 2-by-4.

De Blasio also declined to say how long he’d allow the encampment to continue.

“That decision will be made by the NYPD as things emerge. We’re looking at the situation every day,” he said.