Cops to Protest Over Black Lives Matter Sign at City Hall

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) -- The mayor of a Massachusetts city says he won't remove a Black Lives Matter banner hanging over city hall even as police officers from across the state intend to rally against it.

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, a Democrat who is white, said Wednesday that standing up for minority residents and supporting police officers aren't "competing interests."

He noted the city also has a banner over police headquarters honoring the officers slain in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dallas in retaliation over police killings of black citizens.

The city police union and other Massachusetts officers plan to rally against the banner Thursday after Curtatone denied an earlier request to replace it with an "All Lives Matter" banner.

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[maxsolomon]

1. MA Police don't believe that Black Lives Matter

Got it.

[mountain grammy]

2. I think that cops find this banner so offensive,

explains why the banner is necessary.

[skylucy]

3. I agree.

[Feeling the Bern]

4. My middle finger to the cops. Stop killing black people and lying about it.

[Basement Beat]

5. What a bunch of racist idiots... (n/t)

Why are cops and people in general upset that we don't want to get murdered without there being justice?
What's so effin' hard about that to understand??

[Odin2005]

6. Thin-skinned babies like them should not be cops.