The chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police representing Baltimore’s police officers is getting trashed right now over the hashtag #MyLifeMatters that the union reportedly started as an answer to the anti-cop backlash following the death of Freddie Gray last month.
But this one photo in particular showing the children of a slain officer has really ratcheted up the hate:
#MyLifeMatters pic.twitter.com/MLJ9UV4IOe
— Baltimore City FOP (@FOP3) May 7, 2015
Some examples:
https://twitter.com/Nizmond/status/596335904421085184
https://twitter.com/MichaelAWoodJr/status/596285753010728960
https://twitter.com/jtkittel/status/596300392499032064
https://twitter.com/IYEUMASO/status/596314877234319360
https://twitter.com/Digichick40/status/596316473955643392
@FOP3 Why are you posting this? You are just angering people, not helping your case and making the whole city look bad. Stop provoking
— Massv (@Massvwatches) May 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/EmptyNet35/status/596317111674339328
Shameless, incendiary, exploitative-this is the #Baltimore police. “@FOP3: #MyLifeMatters pic.twitter.com/KuHAIHTKwm”
— Stephen Satterfield (@isawstephen) May 7, 2015
@FOP3 vile shit here.
— Black Phillip (@SmokeeDarko) May 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/ScoutingPodcast/status/596327198379880448
@FOP3 I need everybody to report this page! Get these insensitive pigs off twitter.
— Don’t experiment on Thanksgiving (@gondola__) May 7, 2015
And there’s much more criticism of the union over on the #MyLifeMatters hashtag, but little emotion for these two kids who are growing up without their dad.
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