The chair of the Winnipeg Police Board has drawn criticism for a social media post using a controversial symbol earlier this month. Read on.
Screenshot of a social media post by Winnipeg Police Board chair and Coun. Markus Chambers. Winnipeg Police Cause Harm and other social advocacy groups sent out an open letter on Monday, March 27, 2023, calling out Chambers for the original post and its use of the ‘thin blue line’ which they see as a specific rebuttal to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The group pointed to two other instances when Chambers used the symbol in response to police deaths. Those tweets remain on Chambers’ account.Article contentCoun. Markus Chambers, chair of the Winnipeg Police Board, speaks with media in the city hall courtyard in Winnipeg on Monday, June 8, 2020.“The death of two officers is being contorted into a message of ‘cancel’ for me,” Chambers said via text.
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