Walmart to pull Black Lives Matter T-shirt after complaint from Americas largest police union

[jpak]

Source: NY Daily News

Black Lives Matter T-shirts only matter so much to Walmart.

The retail chain announced Tuesday it will stopping selling a Black Lives Matter shirt on its website after the country’s largest police union demanded its removal and accused the company of “profiting from racial division.”

Walmart plans to nix a shirt and hoodie that said “BULLETPROOF,” with “Black Lives Matter” written under it. The company announced no plans to pull its other Black Lives Matter merchandise.

The shirt will disappear after getting targeted in a letter from the National Fraternal Order of Police, a group that has often clashed with the Black Lives Matter movement.

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[caraher]

1. I wonder why FOP picked that particular item

Sounds like they're still selling other BLM-themed goods (as well as Blue Lives Matter, of course, and I'm sure plenty of Confederate flag themed items).

Do they object particularly to the notion of the wearer being "bulletproof?"

[hughee99]

6. Perhaps they felt it was false advertising since the shirt is not actually bulletproof. n/t

[Stellar]

2. So, the police gets to kill with impunity...

and nobody, Nobody cares!

I didn't know that they had BLM tee-shirts in Walmarts. I'll have to go there and purchase a tee-shirt today.

[caraher]

8. I wonder whether they're only available online

I wouldn't make a special trip to the local store just to find out!

[Earthican]

13. My mom used to donate to them, not now

You should have heard the last time they called asking for money. My mom kept trying to get them to say black lives matter, the person kept responding with their talking point all lives matter. Anyway, much as we have been programmed to automatically respect police I increasingly do not. In fact if anything I fear them more and am waiting for some swat team to break in our house. We did take a trip to Colorado. ☺

[Stellar]

17. Hooray for moms!

Thanks for sharing.

[atreides1]

3. National Fraternal Order of Police

“Commercializing our differences will not help our local police and communities to build greater trust and respect for one another. Turning a buck on strained relationships will not contribute to the healing process.”

As if this police union actually wants to build greater trust and respect...isn't this the same union that wants Trump to give them back their access to military hardware?

The use of bayonets, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns, against the community, speaks volumes about greater trust and respect!!!

[RonniePudding]

7. The FOP is just a bunch of uneducated thugs

[oberliner]

4. The power of Breitbart

They put an article up about this a few days ago and Walmart quickly buckled.

[Uponthegears]

5. I have said this before

but, when they disempower us by denying us peaceful means of resistance, they force us to look elsewhere for self-protection.

Sow the wind . . .

[heaven05]

9. fuck walmart

and the whining cops. Stop killing/murdering UNARMED PoC and maybe you wouldn't have people pointing out TO YOU that Black Lives Matter, always, to people of conscience. Fuck off.

[MountCleaners]

10. Why are the police objecting?

The shirt doesn't say anything about police!

[ronnie624]

15. Because their ranks are brimming with white supremacists.

According to the FBI, anyway.

[sakabatou]

11. They can be such babies

[Dawson Leery]

12. One cannot be liberal and support union powers for agents of the state.

[JI7]

14. Law Enforcement in the US is full of Racist Right Wing Assholes

[RandiFan1290]

16. Whiny pigs need their safe space

Disgusting thugs

[treestar]

18. That's what's not helping

If they can't stand the existence of BLM and don't want anyone to talk about it, that shows they are the ones making it worse.