Police chief's anti-racism sign lauded, criticized
Source: Associated Press
Police chief's anti-racism sign lauded, criticized
| January 4, 2015 | Updated: January 4, 2015 4:31pm
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh's new police chief is being praised by the mayor but criticized by a police union president for being photographed on New Year's Eve holding a sign that says: "I resolve to challenge racism @ work."
The sign also has a Twitter hash tag that says "# end white silence." Chief Cameron McLay was photographed holding up the sign that someone had brought to the city's annual First Night celebration.
Mayor Bill Peduto said he saw the picture on social media and liked it so much he re-posted it on his own Facebook page.
"I thought, 'What a great way to begin the new year,'" said the first-year mayor, who hired McLay in September.
Peduto said he believes the chief was simply recognizing that racism exists and acknowledging there's work to be done restoring trust between the city's police and the black community.
But Fraternal Order of Police president Howard McQuillan said the sign paints city police as racists and violates a policy governing police participation in social media. McQuillan took issue with the mayor's previous comments criticizing the police and saying departmental reforms were needed, and fired off an email to the mayor, which the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Sunday.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Pittsburgh-chief-lauded-criticized-over-race-sign-5993186.php
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He should have wrote "at" instead of "@". 
The temper tantrums by this union and the NYPD reveal a real danger to the practice of giving military armaments to police forces. How long before they declare martial law like other police clans and turn on their civilian bosses?
Fuckin' authoritarians in America. When the masses finally have had enough of being exploited the oligarch-owned police will open fire. 
