Police union planning to protest Black Lives Matter banner

[cos]

On Thursday 5:30-7:30pm at City Hall:

http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2016/07/26/police-plan-protest-black-lives-matter-banner-somerville-city-hall

After Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone denied a request from a city police union to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from City Hall, the union announced it will hold a rally to protest the banner's "disrespectful" message, according to a release from the Somerville Police Employee's Association.

Personally I think their doing this will make lots of people trust them less, fear them more, and increase danger for everyone, including police. I wish they'd call it off.

Worth noting that the chief of police supports the mayor putting up the banner, and the union is initiating this protest, not the police department leadership, as far as I can tell.

Comments

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Black lives matter, such a simple sentence and yet the racists find a way to disagree with it, sometimes directly, often indirectly by disingenuously adding baggage to it and deflecting. The response should just be yes, until it is, these issues will continue.

[siderea]

Hear, hear.

[turil.livejournal.com]

If they just said "Black lives matter, too." it would clear up this whole thing, I think. (I mean the complaints about the language being used, not the whole "us against them" mentality of most folks.)