Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone previously said the banner, which reads “Black Lives Matter”, will continue to hang over the Somerville City Hall, as it has since August 2015, reports CBS News.
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Police officers upset by the mayor of Somerville plan to hold a Thursday evening rally.
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.
Police officers from across the state are set to come together to rally against the Black Lives Matter banner along with the Somerville Police Department.
According to Worcester Magazine, Worcester Police Officer Tom Daly said the officer’s absence was due to the short notice of the rally, and they support the Somerville Police Department’s cause.
Be proactive – Use the “Flag as Inappropriate” link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. “In the face of the continuing assassination of police officers across the country as an apparent offshoot of the BLM movement, it is irresponsible for the city to declare support for the lives of one sector, to the exclusion of others, including police officers”.
I went to a vigil in downtown Middlebury on Thursday, July 21, for Black Lives Matter. “Standing up for our minority populations and supporting the police officers who protect and serve our communities should go hand-in-hand”.
The police chief of Somerville, David Fallon, came out in support of the banner. He said he supported keeping the banner over city hall.
“My unwavering support for our police officers does not and can not preempt our commitment to addressing systemic racism in our nation”, he told Boston.com.
Both of those banners are hanging for the same reason: too many people have died in a cycle of violence that needs to be stopped.
Our understanding is that there will be both a police rally as well as counter protests attended by Somerville residents and others.
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City resident Roy Pardi, who’s white, said some people who don’t understand what Black Lives Matter means.
