Charlotte police union slams woke mayor, local leadership over soft-on-crime policies that let repeat offenders walk free
“Until our elected leaders take crime serious, we will keep burying our citizens at an alarming rate.”
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) issued a blistering rebuke of city leadership this week, accusing elected officials of ignoring warnings about repeat offenders following the brutal murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train.
The statement starts with the FOP quoting Mayor Vi Lyles, who said, “We need a bipartisan solution to address repeat offenders who do not face consequences for their actions.” The FOP fired back, posting, “What a concept [eyes rolling emoji]. Maybe if the mayor followed our Facebook page for maybe the past 5 years or so, she’d see we’ve been complaining about this and calling for action. It’s been met with [crickets emoji].”
