AND���It Has Come to This: SF Police Union���s ���Black Labs Matter��� Dog Photo Under Fire

The August edition of the San Francisco Police Officers Association Journal, the official, monthly paper of the San Francisco police officers��� union, contains a photo of two dogs that has raised the ire of some who say that the image demeans the Black Lives Matter movement.

The photo at issue features two Labrador retrievers sitting side by side, one black and the other yellow. The black lab has a sign around its neck that reads, ���Black Labs Matter,��� while the sign around the yellow Lab���s neck reads, ���All Labs Matter.��� Accompanying the photo is the following caption: ���Maybe it's time we all just sit back and tone down the rhetoric.���

Seems harmless enough, but try telling that to Sergeant Yulanda Williams, president of Officers for Justice, a group within the SFPD that represents the interests of minority members of the department. Williams said that choosing to run the photo demonstrates a ���blatant unwillingness to speak up for black lives��� on the part of the department.

���It's so inflammatory, and they still don't get it. They still choose to inflame situations, and it's just really insulting.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large