Police rally as mayor says Black Lives Matter banner stays on City Hall (school, Massachusetts)

[yueng-ling]

SOMERVILLE, Mass. – About 50 police officers and their supporters upset about a Black Lives Matter banner that has been hanging outside City Hall for a year rallied on Thursday to try to pressure the mayor to remove it.

The primarily white opponents of the banner broke into chants of "All lives matter!" and "Take it down!" Many held signs saying "Cops lives matter" and "Support your local police."

Harold MacGilvray, president of a coalition representing 1,500 officers in 26 communities, said a public building like Somerville's City Hall is "no place" for political slogans to be displayed.

The mayor of Somerville, a largely white and historically working-class Boston suburb, had earlier in the day promised not to remove the banner despite complaints from officers across the state.

Mayor Joe Curtatone, a white Democrat, said Thursday afternoon it's "OK to disagree" and the only way to resolve the impasse is through an "open dialogue" about race.

"That sign is not coming down," he insisted while standing in front of City Hall flanked by the police chief and two deputy chiefs.

[ntwrkguy1]

Somerville -- often referred to as Dumberville by the graduates of its pubic schools -- is straight up pandering.

Somerville is right smack in the middle of the liberal craphole known as Boston, MA., so this isn't particularly shocking. But this isn't going to sit well with the police up there, one of whom is a relative of mine.

[yueng-ling]

Originally Posted by ntwrkguy1

Somerville -- often referred to as Dumberville by the graduates of its pubic schools -- is straight up pandering.

Somerville is right smack in the middle of the liberal craphole known as Boston, MA., so this isn't particularly shocking. But this isn't going to sit well with the police up there, one of whom is a relative of mine.

It has Tufts University, not too bad.

[BentBow]

It is the peoples house.... The people in the mob mentality, can take it down themselves.
Especially if they are armed to the teeth, proving their might over government, in the order of power.