Chicago Fraternal Order of Police members are protesting Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the lobby of City Hall. “Rahm must go! Back the blue!” Among the signs: “No consent decree” and “Blue lives matter” pic.twitter.com/4LaXvsYeVM
— Bill Ruthhart (@BillRuthhart) May 23, 2018
Fighting back.
Via Fox News:
It’s being called “Blue Wednesday” in Chicago as the city’s Fraternal Order of Police organized a unified public demonstration against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who the FOP calls “anti-police.”
During the city’s regularly scheduled city council meeting Wednesday morning, ranking members of the police union read aloud a strongly worded statement against Emanuel in which the FOP alleges the mayor has “turned his back” on his police department by being more concerned with “pandering to police-hating media” and by allowing the American Civil Liberties Union to have a seat at the negotiating table.
A protest organized by police officers became tense at City Hall. One woman was seen apparently spitting at a demonstrator marching with police officers.
The Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7, which says it represents an estimated 15,000 active and retired members, recently sent out a notice to all of its members to attend Wednesday’s city council meeting to demand that “Mayor Rahm Emanuel back police.”
The move comes in response to the Chicago Police Board’s recent decision to put Officer Robert Rialmo on a no-pay status for a 2015 fatal shooting that was deemed unjustified by the board—but was ruled justified by Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson.