Member Since: 4/28/2012
Posts: 37,654
|
Beyoncé boycott continues; Housto, NY, Nashville
Quote:
The head of one of New York city’s police unions said his members might boycott an upcoming Beyoncé concert in solidarity with their brothers in blue in Miami and Tampa, who are already indicating they stay away.
According to PIX11, the head of the New York’s Sergeants Benevolent Association said he is thinking about telling his members to also sit out the opportunity to make some extra pay when the Beyoncé plays Citi Field.
“Law enforcement across the country has to make a statement that we’re not bad guys and she’s got to stop portraying us as bad guys,” said New York union head Ed Mullins.
Mullins stated that he is going to discuss the idea of a boycott with his board, but that he would like to meet with the singer before making for a decision, saying he wants her to tone down what he perceives to be her anti-police rhetoric.
|
x
Quote:
The Nashville Fraternal Order of Police plans to advise its members to not voluntarily work at a Beyonce concert scheduled for Nashville's Nissan Stadium in May.
Danny Hale, president of the Nashville Fraternal Order of Police, the city’s union for police officers, said that he wouldn’t tell officers to outright boycott providing security at the show if they are ordered. But he said rank-and-file Nashville police officers shouldn’t sign up.
“It’s pretty obvious there’s an anti-policing sentiment in her messages,” Hale said, pointing to the pop megastar’s recent halftime show at the Super Bowl earlier this month, which had imagery that critics say is associated with the Black Panther Party.
Hale alleged that Black Panther members have been responsible for the deaths of police officers in the past.
“If we volunteer to work her event, we’re basically saying you can say or do anything you want to when it comes to police officers and we’re just going to sit and take it,” Hale said. “We’ve been under attack for the past eight, 10, 12 months. Some things that are done and said are just not fair, and it’s not right.”
|
x
Quote:
Other American police unions are contemplating joining the proposed Miami boycott.
The New York Police Department’s Sergeants Benevolent Association announced it would back the boycott. Bill Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said Friday that “We fully support individual officers’ and their unions’ call for the boycott. Why would any group of working men and women support a rich celebrity who openly glorifies murderers? Why would anybody?”
Both the Massachusetts Police Association and the Houston Police Officers’ Union are allowing police officers to decide on their own whether or not to support the boycott.
|
|
|
|
|
Cutlure Icon 