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Police Under Investigation for Traffic Safety Message That Offended Black Lives Matter Protesters
PJ Media ^ | July 13, 2020 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 07/13/2020 3:03:35 PM PDT by rickmichaels

Last week, Paul Brodeur, mayor of Melrose, Mass., apologized for a supposedly offensive traffic safety message and launched an investigation into it. He made a federal case about a police billboard reading “THE SAFETY OF ALL LIVES MATTER.” This simple statement expressing the importance of safety for everyone is purportedly offensive or racist or something because many respond to the “Black Lives Matter” movement with signs reading “All Lives Matter.”

“I have just been made aware that the following traffic sign is being displayed on Main Street,” Brodeur tweeted with a picture of the sign. “I have ordered that it be taken down immediately and am taking steps to find out how this happened. I apologize to the residents of Melrose.”

The mayor’s tweet went viral as conservatives drew attention to the idea that the message “all lives matter,” even in a clearly apolitical context, is considered too offensive.

“So…all lives *don’t* matter, Mr. Mayor?” Mark Dice tweeted.

Brodeur was right to think some citizens of Melrose would find the message offensive, however. At least two members of the City Council — Maya Jamaleddine and Jack Eccles — joined a small group of Black Lives Matter protesters at the location where the sign once stood, Patch reported.

Police Chief Mike Lyle insisted that the officer who wrote “all lives matter” did not do so with “malicious or political intent.” He launched an investigation into the “improper and unfortunate” sign.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alllivesmatter; blm; grovel; offended; paulbrodeur; thugculture; whimper
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1 posted on 07/13/2020 3:03:35 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

Thanks for posting this.


2 posted on 07/13/2020 3:04:33 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rickmichaels

Wow. This is insane. Seriously.


3 posted on 07/13/2020 3:06:55 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: rickmichaels

Commie lives don’t matter.

Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot agree.


4 posted on 07/13/2020 3:07:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rickmichaels

just waiting to see what the spark will be to make this cold civil war go hot.


5 posted on 07/13/2020 3:07:42 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rickmichaels

The Mayor needs to have his ass kicked.


6 posted on 07/13/2020 3:07:43 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: rickmichaels

When I saw that message, I started shaking and felt like sucking my thumb, which in itself was embarrassing. I am so triggered right now.


7 posted on 07/13/2020 3:08:06 PM PDT by webheart (Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
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To: rickmichaels

First of all, all lives don’t matter. Not in the context they are using it in

Do convicted child molesters lives matter? Did Hitler’s life matter? Stalin’s?

Yes they mattered in a horrible way to the ones they destroyed. And I’m sure Hitler and all his cronies matter to themselves.

But that’s not what these people are talking about. They are saying every human being should be cherished. That’s nice in a fantasy world. It’s not real.


8 posted on 07/13/2020 3:08:37 PM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: rickmichaels

They apologized? So that town don’t give two sh*ts about white, yellow or brown lives?

Isn’t that racist?


9 posted on 07/13/2020 3:09:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rickmichaels

Apologize for what? - you gutless coward. Unless this is a joke and I missed it.


10 posted on 07/13/2020 3:09:26 PM PDT by dainbramaged (That information is classified. Request denied.)
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To: rickmichaels

They should get rid of those stupid things anyway. We got too many damn signs on our roads, reading a freaking novel while you’re driving. My favorite they had up over the highway, big ol color LED screen “don’t drive distracted” well distracting me with you’re idiot @%^^&* signs!


11 posted on 07/13/2020 3:10:01 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: rickmichaels
Oh Noes Noes Noes!!!!

Screaming_Snowflake


12 posted on 07/13/2020 3:10:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: rickmichaels

Considering all the road signs that have been hacked .....


13 posted on 07/13/2020 3:10:40 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: rickmichaels
Black Cars Matter.

-PJ

14 posted on 07/13/2020 3:11:06 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: dainbramaged

On their knees pandering to the Marxist Mob without thinking.

To many eunuch in position these days.


15 posted on 07/13/2020 3:12:41 PM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: rickmichaels
We're witnessing The French Revolution 2.0

Eventually nobody will be safe from the guillotine.

16 posted on 07/13/2020 3:12:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: rickmichaels

Oh my God. This is outrageous. This is a crime against humanity to suggest that all lives matter. The audacity of someone to load that messaga into the machine!


17 posted on 07/13/2020 3:14:01 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: rickmichaels

Tucker Carlson did a segment on this last Friday. He also posted a picture of the mayor and said that any white people who were considering visiting Melrose might want to reconsider. Tucker mad him famous.


18 posted on 07/13/2020 3:14:29 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: discostu
My favorite they had up over the highway, big ol color LED screen “don’t drive distracted”

I'll try not to be distracted next time a mob of blood thirsty cultist surround my vehicle, smashing my windows while trying to drag me out into a crowd of savage violent misfits.

19 posted on 07/13/2020 3:14:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rickmichaels
Hey Melrose, your mayor said your life doesn't matter
20 posted on 07/13/2020 3:16:31 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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