MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) – Rallies are being held in Milwaukee and other U.S. cities to show support for police officers involved in killing those in custody.
The Wisconsin chapter of “Concerns of Police Survivors,” or COPS, is holding a two-hour rally Friday evening at the city’s fire union hall. In addition, the group and the Milwaukee police union are urging folks to share positive law enforcement stories on social media — or just thank officers when people see them.
Denise Held of the Wisconsin COPS group said “Law Enforcement Appreciation Day” was established in response to what she called “negative publicity” of the police shootings in New York and Ferguson Missouri. And she included the Milwaukee Police shooting of Dontre Hamilton.
Held says that throughout the country, “the sentiment seems to be that all law enforcement officers are bad — and that’s just not true.”
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)