Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday praised the “fair and impartial” process that led to a judge’s recommendation to fire embattled NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo in Eric Garner’s chokehold death.

He just won’t say if he agrees with it.

De Blasio again blamed federal prosecutors, accusing them of dragging their feet — claiming the feds “demanded” the NYPD hold off on its internal probe ­until the Justice Department was done looking into civil rights charges — and that state law bars the mayor from chiming in.

“If you believe that there is a fair and impartial process — and I do — then letting it reach its conclusion beyond reproach, beyond question is necessary,” de Blasio said Friday.

“I am talking as a steward of this city,” he said. “I believe my role is to respect this process and respect the state law. And that’s the best way to get to that closure.”

Asked if he spoke about the recommendation with Police Commissioner James O’Neill, who has the final say in deciding Pantaleo’s fate, he said he hadn’t.

“I have not spoken to him and that is because I respect this process,” he said.

Asked about the case’s effect on the NYPD, he talked of retraining cops to make fewer arrests.

“After the death of Eric Garner, everything was reevaluated. The entire police force was retrained . . . to understand the implicit bias that we all carry with us, to ensure it would not interfere with their duty,” he said.