Officers sue Palo Alto over Black Lives Matter mural

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Five officers have sued the Silicon Valley city of Palo Alto, saying it allowed the creation of a Black Lives Matter mural with anti-police images that constituted harassment and discrimination against law enforcement.

The mural was painted last June in the street across from City Hall following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin. It was to remain on the street for up to a year but it was gone by November, according to The Daily Post in Palo Alto, which first reported the lawsuit Wednesday.

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"Law enforcement officers, including Plaintiffs, were forced to physically pass and confront the Mural and its offensive, discriminatory, and harassing iconography every time they entered the Palo Alto Police Department,” the lawsuit said.

The officers complained to officials that the mural violated the state Fair Employment and Housing Act. But the city “ratified the conduct and insisted that it remain and persist,” according to the lawsuit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/officers-sue-california-city-over-black-lives-matter-mural/ar-AALWkPj

Maybe you shouldn't be in law enforcement if you're that much of a fucking snowflake.

[Hoyt]

1. Will be quickly dismissed. Hope whiny asses are disciplined.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. When did being a LEO become a protected class...

[edhopper]

3. It's not hate

It's heritage.
Bet those same police have no problem with Confederate monuments.

[tirebiter]

10. There aren't many confederate statues in Palo Alto.

Like none.

[FreeState]

4. Here's the art - I don't see anything anti-cop in it

https://medium.com/paloaltoconnect/palo-altos-temporary-black-lives-matter-mural-and-what-s-next-139dff948f57

[Dial H For Hero]

5. Here's the part to which they object:

https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/07/07/five-palo-alto-officers-challenge-city-over-black-lives-matter

In doing so, however, the city also has attracted criticisms and a legal threat from its own police ranks, with several officers expressing concern about the mural's depiction of Joanne Chesimard, a civil rights activist in the Black Liberation Army. Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, was convicted in 1977 of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. She subsequently escaped from prison and fled to Cuba.

[ornotna]

7. I can see it

Read backwards it says 'kill all cops'



And they say Dems are the snowflakes.

[Hoyt]

11. From article, can see why some might object, but not like policemen

aren’t caught with some questionable symbols or actions.

If I were the police folks, would let it go especially as far as courts are concerned.

[jimfields33]

6. I don't either. No way do the cops win this.

[Me.]

8. It's Beautiful

[Sneederbunk]

9. Merely taking their ques from those who go after artwork that offends them.