"BLACK ACTIVISTS ARE TAKING ON RACIST POLICE UNIONS"

http://feministing.com/2016/07/21/black-activists-are-taking-on-racist-police-unions/

"Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Million Hoodies locked down the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) to call attention to the lack of accountability for city police and to demand the immediate firing of the officer who murdered Delrawn Small. Meanwhile, BYP100 and Black Lives Matter D.C. halted traffic in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C in protest of the Fraternal Order of Police’s (FOP) actions to criminalize protests against police brutality and negotiate union contracts that shield officers from accountability. (You can learn more about the protests at #StopFOP.)

In describing the rationale for the action, Clarise McCants, an organizer with BYP100 D.C., drew an important parallel between campus anti-violence organizing and the movement to end police brutality:

The FOP acts like a college fraternity and is responsible for maintaining the harmful, lethal, unethical, and unaccountable culture of policing while the families and communities impacted when officers brutalize civilians are left to mourn with little, if any, semblance of justice. Just like college frats that further rape culture by closing ranks to protect members who are sexual assailants, the FOP has proven that their primary commitment is to protect the worst of their members behind the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ – even in the most heinous of circumstances. The FOP is the most dangerous fraternity in America and they need to be stopped."