Amazon selling 'Bulletproof Black Lives Matter' shirt

tay

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The US's largest police union has urged Amazon to remove a T-shirt from its third-party marketplace that says: “Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter”.


The Fraternal Order of Police has already succeeded in having garment removed from Walmart supermarkets. But as of Sunday morning it was still available on Amazon.

Union president Chuck Canterbury said he didn't expect that to change anytime soon.

Characterising Amazon as a “pretty liberal marketer", he told The Guardian that the T-shirt's rhetoric had inspired violence against members of law enforcement.

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 64 police officers have been fatally shot in the line of duty in 2016.

At least 940 people have been killed by a police office across the country over the same period, according to the Washington Post database that tracks police violence.


Police union demands Amazon to remove 'Bulletproof Black Lives Matter' shirt | The Independent
 

Machjo

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How does a bullet-proof vest promote violence against police officers? A bullet-proof vest is a strictly defensive garment. What? The police expect the guy to take off his vest and start swinging it at the officer?
 

Cliffy

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What is it that inspires police to kill civilians? If we could find that out maybe we could have that or those items taken off the market.
 

Murphy

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Jesus man, there are times when it's necessary. Perhaps even you will end up deactivated some day. Time to add that to your bucket list.