Of the 15 large US cities in which a majority of officers are non-white, only one – Memphis – has a union leader who is black
The head of a police union in Baltimore called Black Lives Matter protesters a “lynch mob”. One in Philadelphia referred to demonstrators as “a pack of rabid animals”. Another has labeled St Louis’s democratically elected prosecutor, who is black and supports police reform, a “menace to society” who must be removed – “by force” if necessary.In many cities, police officers are more likely to be white than the citizens they are sworn to protect and serve.
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