Somerville Police Employees Association President Michael McGrath writes in a letter sent Tuesday to Mayor Joseph Curtatone that officers are “deeply troubled” the current banner remains.
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Curtatone was not swayed, saying in a statement to the Globe that a banner honoring the slain officers in Dallas now is hanging in the Somerville police headquarters, “where it would provide the most moral support to our officers”.
“We shouldn’t have to be fearful of our lives because we were born this way”, explained Jon Williams, the organizer of the Black Lives Matter Event. In the eyes of the law, they said he’s innocent. “Both banners will remain hanging”.
“The vast majority of police officers across this country are tasked with shielding, protecting, and assisting elements of the protest movement that loathe them, spit on them, intentionally injure them, and wish death upon them”, the letter read.
On Thursday, the chief of Somerville’s police stepped into the disagreement.
A heated debate between Katie Hopkins and Carl Dix surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement turned into an all-out argument when Hopkins accused the group of creating a hostile divide in America.
“Peaceful protest to end violence and injustice stands at the core of our nation’s values and our democracy and we will continue our peaceful protest via the banner”. Do they want it down? He said Donald Trump won’t “pander” to one race. She said she also wants to plan forums with police forces to see what issues in the local community need to be addressed, then find out what can improve community relations with police and minorities.
In Fallon’s statement, he said the mayor has always been a “staunch supporter” of the police department as well as a supporter of human rights. “I’m not sure if they were asked before the letter went out, their feelings on it”, he said.
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Attempting to clarify his view that it shouldn’t take police shootings to focus attention on discrimination against black people, Rocky said: “I just get upset, and what I was really trying to say there was, like, yo, I just, I hate when the bandwagon stuff start”.
