Police Union Outraged At Police Chief For…Condemning Racism

Pittsburgh’s new police chief Cameron McLay 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.”

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.

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.

However, 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.

“By Mayor Peduto labeling us ‘corrupt and mediocre’ and now our current Chief insinuating that we are now racist, merely by the color of our skin and the nature of our profession, I say enough is enough!” the email said.

Sam Seder video.

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http://news.yahoo.com/police-chiefs-anti-racism-sign-criticized-222646730.html

Mesa, Arizona Cop Punches 15-year-old girl: ‘If She Wanted To, She Could Have Shot Her Dead.’

A video posted to the Internet on Friday shows a female police officer using physical force to subdue a screaming teenager.  The Mesa, Arizona police officer can be seen punching and brutalizing a teen girl as her mother yells at the officer to stop.

Mesa police said the girl’s mother contacted them for help, and they stepped in after the girl refused to cooperate and then assaulted one of their officers.

According to the Free Thought Project, the 15-year-old girl was a runaway who the police officer was attempting to apprehend.

According to LiveLeak, the officer put the girl in a chokehold — even after the teen’s mother begged her and a second officer to stop, saying that the girl is asthmatic and has emotional issues.

As her legs kicked and flailed, the girl told the officers she couldn’t breathe, screaming, “Stop!” over and over.

The second officer said that everything his partner did was according to police procedure and that if she’d wanted to, the officer “could have shot her dead.”

LiveLeak video.