Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis issued a statement Saturday denouncing the city’s police union for a series of posts on social media overnight.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Slams FOP for Tweets Celebrating Officer Goodson’s Acquittal
The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police lodge took to Twitter on Friday night and posted a photo of actor Leonardo DiCaprio making a toast, with overlain text saying, “Here’s to the Baltimore 6 defense team, the FOP and Detective Taylor.”
June 27, 2016
Tweets from the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Twitter account Saturday and Sunday that were later deleted. (Photo: Twitter/@FOP3)
The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police lodge took to Twitter on Friday night and posted a photo of actor Leonardo DiCaprio making a toast, with overlain text saying, “Here’s to the Baltimore 6 defense team, the FOP and Detective Taylor.” The FOP also posted a tweet Saturday morning with an image of City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby with the text, “The Wolf That Lurks.” That image was first used as a cover of a New York police union magazine last October, the Baltimore Sun reports.
The posts come in the days after a Baltimore judge acquitted Officer Caesar Goodson facing the most serious charges in the death of Freddie Gray, delivering a broad rebuke of a case that he said lacked evidence.