The Kansas City Police Department drew backlash online Tuesday when it advertised a unity march with city officials, pastors, churches and community leaders.
The march, organized in conjunction with The Justice Center, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the front lawn of the Nelson Atkins Museum.
According to a flier posted on Twitter Tuesday, the march will proceed to Mill Creek Park, near the Country Club Plaza, where daily protests starting Friday have drawn thousands of people to demonstrate against police brutality. They are among protests that have swept the nation in the wake of the killing of a George Floyd, a black man, during his arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25.
In Kansas City, the protests have ended with police using tear gas against demonstrators and arresting at least 170 people.
The march Wednesday, billed as an event “for human rights and peace in our streets,” is scheduled to include the Kansas City mayor’s office, City Council, the Kansas City Fire Department, as well as the police department.
Minutes after the police department posted the announcement on Twitter, many on social media answered back sharply.
Some called for police to leave their guns and weapons behind.
One person tweeted that the message would be taken as “propaganda” until police remove riot gear and stop using tear gas.
Another person asked why people should support the event when the police haven’t supported the protest.
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From the article above: “In Kansas City, the protests have ended with police using tear gas against demonstrators and arresting at least 170 people”. The Kansas City Star intimating that the police are evil and terrible, because they used tear gas against rioters. Oh, how I love the communist press. What has happened to our Country???????? Go rot Kansas City Star.
TYPICAL. Leftists can protest, riot and destroy.
BUT conservatives.. NA HOW DARE THEY protest.
Yeah, the “protesters”, rioters, looters, and building burners would love to see a bunch of un-armed,
un-protected cops in their midst.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
I’d rather see tanks and front-end loaders rolling down the street. That’s the only thing this scum understands.
And BIG Firetrucks with turret nozzles. No normal police gear, but hoodies and non medical type face masks are OK? This may be one of the few peaceful “protest” marches in eons…….But it does leave areas open elsewhere.
How’s about all those snow plows??
What is not mentioned here: SOMEONE is prepositioning piles of bricks close to where “protests” are being planned … now do you see why the notion of LEO’s disarming is ludicrous?
WHICH IS what i have been asking. WHY IS IT THE COPS ARE NOT finding those pre-positioned pallets of bricks, AND EITHER SEIZING them or finding out WHO THE HELL delivered them, to ARREST THEM?!?!?!
The police are joining the protestors in unity against bad cops.
Of course the Media hates it. They worked so hard to sow division, confusion, hatred. Any rational person would see this as potential hope for a new beginning, where cops treat people with human dignity. But if that happens, how can the Media possibly Orange Man Bad?