BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis is responding to what he calls "insensitive" and "inappropriate" social media posts from the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police.
Following the latest verdict of Officer Caesar Goodson in the Freddie Gray trial on Thursday, the Baltimore City FOP took to Twitter Friday night, where it posted a meme of actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" with the text "Here's to the Baltimore 6 defense team, the FOP and Detective Taylor."
Detective Taylor is the officer the prosecution accused of "sabotaging" their case against Officer Goodson.
Early Saturday morning, the FOP tweeted a picture of State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby at a podium with the words "The wolf that lurks" written across the top of the photo.
Davis said the remarks "serve to detract from our necessary relationships with our community and criminal justice partners have no place in our City."
The tweets were soon deleted by the Baltimore FOP.
Baltimore City Council President Jack Young released the following statement in response to the tweets:
"I condemn the highly insensitive and inflammatory tweets issued Friday night by the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police lodge. The tweets, in addition to making light of a tragedy that claimed the life of a young man last April, only serve to further exacerbate distrust between our brave men and women in uniform and the citizens they are sworn to protect and serve. I call on the leadership of the FOP to immediately apologize to the citizens of Baltimore and the members of the Baltimore City Police Department for their irresponsible and harmful postings on social media. Deleting derogatory postings after the fact won't suffice. The FOP's leadership needs to stand up, take responsibility and issue an apology to the citizens of Baltimore."
