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National law enforcement organization protest Black women for commenting “Who is going to train them not to shoot black children first?!?”

Law enforcement activists in New Jersey staged a protest outside of the employer of a Black healthcare administrator who made a Facebook comment referencing police implicit bias against Black people. The national law enforcement organization Brothers Before Others with about 50 members protested outside the offices of RWJBarnabas Health where Michellene Davis is an executive vice president according to NorthJersey.com.

The organization said they will continue to protest until Davis is “held accountable” for her comments.

The comment Davis made on Facebook was in response to an article a friend of hers shared surrounding schools in Fair Lawn, NJ would be employing armed police officers to guard campuses. Davis response that has the police organization upset stated: “Who is going to train them not to shoot black children first?!?”

Davis has since apologized for her comment and was suspended by her employer but she was reinstated earlier in the month.

Brothers Before Others found issue with RWJBarnabas Chief Executive Officer Barry H. Ostrowsky, whom the organization alleges “doubled down” on Davis’s comments. When Ostrowsky wrote a statement saying RWJBarnabas Health wants to take a leadership position in social issues, including “violence in all its forms.”

The statement went on to say that Davis is the proper executive to lead the Social Impact and Community Investment Practice for RWJBarnabas Health.

Rob O’Donnell, director of media relations for Brothers Before Others, told NorthJersey.com:

“For a senior VP of a hospital to come out with that statement demonizing police when that’s not even close to the problem is egregious. Our police are risking everything to protect these children in the schools and are running toward gunfire when there are shootings and she’s accusing them of indiscriminately attacking black children?”

During the protest members of Brothers Before Others carried flyers that declared of the 1.2 million violent crimes nationally in 2017, law enforcement used deadly force in 987 of those cases and 99.5 percent were against armed subjects. The flyers said that cops use of deadly force is down 70 percent and is at a 40-year low.

The organization contends they do not want Davis to lose her job but they want her to be held accountable and RWJBarnabas recognizes the stats on the flyer. Until that happens the protest will continue.

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