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Now this was EVEN before Black Lives Matter... read the below:
...the major law enforcement unions have openly bucked the prevailing rhetoric of the rest of the labor movement regarding the deaths two unarmed black men killed by police: Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York reflects the historic tension between those who called strikes and those who enforced laws breaking them.
After Richard Trumka, president of the labor coalition AFL-CIO, co-signed an open letter to President Barack Obama regarding the "long list of black men and boys who have died under eerily similar circumstances" in August, he caught flak from police officers within the very coalition he oversees.
"In the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner in New York, the International Union of Police Associations withheld comment until facts were known," wrote its president, Sam Cabral, in early December. "We wish the administration as well as the president of the AFL-CIO had been as thoughtful. I believe that anyone making pronouncements before knowing the facts has an agenda, not a position."
Police unions, organized labor have rarely seen eye to eye
So today how do the police unions feel about "Black Lives matters' Stance/Hillary support?
Philadelphia’s police union is blasting Hillary Clinton for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain police officers. John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was “shocked and saddened” by the planned choice of speakers at the convention, which opens Monday in Philadelphia.
“The Fraternal Order of Police is insulted and will not soon forget that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are excluding the widows and other family members of police officers killed in the line of duty who were victims of explicit and not implied racism,” Mr. McNesby said in a statement.
He said it’s “sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country.
“Mrs. Clinton, you should be ashamed of yourself, if that is possible.”
Philadelphia police union slams Hillary Clinton over choice of speakers at convention
And now today...
For years, Black Lives Matter activists have protested police departments,
Wednesday the movement took on the unions that protect cops, including bad ones.
Protesters using plastic pipes and metal chains barricaded the entrance to the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday morning. At the same time, protesters occupied the Fraternal Order of Police building in Washington D.C., waving flags and posters reading “#STOPFOP” and “The most dangerous fraternity in America.”
Black Lives Matter Activists Take on a New Foe: Police Unions
...the major law enforcement unions have openly bucked the prevailing rhetoric of the rest of the labor movement regarding the deaths two unarmed black men killed by police: Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York reflects the historic tension between those who called strikes and those who enforced laws breaking them.
After Richard Trumka, president of the labor coalition AFL-CIO, co-signed an open letter to President Barack Obama regarding the "long list of black men and boys who have died under eerily similar circumstances" in August, he caught flak from police officers within the very coalition he oversees.
"In the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner in New York, the International Union of Police Associations withheld comment until facts were known," wrote its president, Sam Cabral, in early December. "We wish the administration as well as the president of the AFL-CIO had been as thoughtful. I believe that anyone making pronouncements before knowing the facts has an agenda, not a position."
Police unions, organized labor have rarely seen eye to eye
So today how do the police unions feel about "Black Lives matters' Stance/Hillary support?
Philadelphia’s police union is blasting Hillary Clinton for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain police officers. John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was “shocked and saddened” by the planned choice of speakers at the convention, which opens Monday in Philadelphia.
“The Fraternal Order of Police is insulted and will not soon forget that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are excluding the widows and other family members of police officers killed in the line of duty who were victims of explicit and not implied racism,” Mr. McNesby said in a statement.
He said it’s “sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country.
“Mrs. Clinton, you should be ashamed of yourself, if that is possible.”
Philadelphia police union slams Hillary Clinton over choice of speakers at convention
And now today...
For years, Black Lives Matter activists have protested police departments,
Wednesday the movement took on the unions that protect cops, including bad ones.
Protesters using plastic pipes and metal chains barricaded the entrance to the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday morning. At the same time, protesters occupied the Fraternal Order of Police building in Washington D.C., waving flags and posters reading “#STOPFOP” and “The most dangerous fraternity in America.”
Black Lives Matter Activists Take on a New Foe: Police Unions
