Police officers will no longer sit idly by while their members get assassinated by “lawless thugs with nothing but hatred and racial divide as their motive.”
On Monday, President Obama was in Boston to speak at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Breakfast. Several labor unions, including the police union, were invited to attend. The police declined the invitation.
Jerry Flynn, the executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Society, issued a lengthy media release [PDF] explaining why his members would not be attending. Flynn also said his members had planned to protest the event but did not have sufficient time to organize.