Mayor criticizes cop union head over 'rabid animals' comment

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 5:05 pm, Tuesday, September 5, 2017

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Philadelphia's mayor is criticizing the head of the police union for labeling protesters outside an officer's home a "pack of rabid animals."

Union president John McNesby made the comment last week at a rally supporting officers.

A week earlier a Black Lives Matter group and others protested outside the home of an officer who's on administrative leave after fatally shooting a black man in June. The shooting is under review because police say it appears the man was shot in the buttocks as he ran away.

Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney tells Philadelphia Magazine , "Referring to black people as animals has a long, painful history in this country."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Mayor-criticizes-cop-union-head-over-rabid-12174620.php

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John McNesby

[chelsea0011]

1. Speaking of rabies. Do I need shots just looking at that guy?

[MurrayDelph]

2. I want to revoke the charter

of any police "union" that calls itself a "fraternal order."

The very name implies that it is less of a professional guild and more of a good-old-boy's club.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Conservative Republican Calvin Coolidge and I agree on something.

Police should NOT have union representation.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Philadelphia's police ...

... have a long history of racism.

[beachbum bob]

5. wtf...why aint he fired?