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
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