Did the Louisville Police Union Just Threaten City Residents?

Police unions are not exactly shy about expressing their anger. New York’s police-union chief said Mayor Bill de Blasio had blood on his hands following the fatal shooting of two officers. Baltimore’s police-union chief described #BlackLivesMatter protesters as a “lynch mob.” Cleveland’s police-union chief said “we've given the inmates the keys to the asylum,” referring to recent anti-cop sentiments, and while the subject of that remark wasn’t entirely clear, he was plain about his hostility to “leadership, federal, state and local.”

All of that is patty-cake compared to the position taken by the River City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 614 in Louisville, Kentucky. In an open letter, Louisville police union president Dave Mutchler issued what could be read as a threat to residents of the city.