ZitatIn the wake of police-involved fatal shootings over the last week — culminating with an ambush against cops in Dallas that took five of their lives — a city councilwoman from Nevada City, California, posted her thoughts about the matter on Facebook.
And officers in her hometown aren’t happy.
What did Reinette Senum write in her now-deleted post? “This was completely incited by America’s police force. They have obviously been given directives to go out there and kill.” She also wrote that “we can expect this when police murder somebody. It’s the oldest trick in the book …”
So outraged were local officers that the Nevada City Police Association unanimously issued a vote of no confidence and asked for her resignation, KMAX-TV reported.
“You paint a picture that every police officer is corrupt and that were out looking to kill somebody is just completely unacceptable,” Nevada City officer Tim Ewing told the station, also noting that “it’s not something that anybody wants to do and certainly there’s been no directive for us to go do such a thing.”
In related news, Senum stated she will not resign and offered this as her explanation:
ZitatSenum said local officers are hurt because they thought her comments were directed toward them, but instead she was speaking in general terms about police violence that has occurred in other parts of the country.
“I want to apologize because our local police think I’m speaking about them,” she said. “I am speaking about the police out there that has a culture of violence.”