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Police protest Black Lives Matter banner at city hall (Somerville MA)
Associated Press ^
| Jul 28, 2016 12:44 AM EDT
Posted on 07/28/2016 6:36:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Police in Massachusetts are protesting a mayor’s refusal to remove a Black Lives Matter banner that’s hanging over city hall.
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone has declined repeated requests by the city police officers’ union to replace the banner with one that reads “All Lives Matter.” The banner has been up for nearly a year. …
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TOPICS: Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: alllivesmatter; badmayor; blackliesmatter; bluelivesmatter; somerville; waroncops
But the police union will still keep voting Democrat in spite of this, yes?
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:36:53 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Why not just take the frikkin' thing DOWN ?
You're frikkin' COPS, ain'cha' ?
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:40:47 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it ticks people off)
To: Olog-hai
Hope not. Giuliani implied today that the Dem convention kept out all uniformed police. He said he didn’t happen to see a single one.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:43:07 AM PDT
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are Democrats who love war and illegal aliens)
To: knarf
If they take it down someone might call the cops on them. And then they may be ordered to arrest themselves.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:43:29 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
To: Olog-hai
They should replace it with one that says: “Thug Lives Don’t Matter.”
Anyone who is offended by that because they think it refers to black people is a racist.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:43:31 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: Olog-hai
Somerville, Mass: Cambridge-wannabees.
To: rfreedom4u
They don’t have to file charges on themselves, though.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:45:00 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it ticks people off)
To: knarf
Police don’t file the charges. The DA does that.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:45:57 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
To: Olog-hai
This is ridiculous. Time to oust that mayor.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:47:44 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Olog-hai
I would not be surprised, or upset, if the Mayor got pulled over for erratic driving and found to have a bunch of crack in his car.
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posted on
07/28/2016 7:36:01 AM PDT
by
TonyM
To: rfreedom4u
oops ... yeah ... ok ... the dog ate my report, chief ... sorry.
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posted on
07/28/2016 7:46:05 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it ticks people off)
To: Olog-hai
The police ought to get together and all go over and take it down. What is the mayor going to do about it? Arrest them?
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posted on
07/29/2016 9:16:56 AM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
(Liberals and Islamists are the Nazis and Stalinists of the 21st century. This time they are united.)
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