Posted on 12/21/2016 10:38:56 AM PST by blam
Kate Taylor
December 21,2016
Walmart pulled a Black Lives Matter shirt and hoodie from its online store Wednesday after police accused the retailer of helping third-party sellers profit "from racial division."
The hoodie and shirt that were pulled featured the slogan, "Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter," and were being sold through Walmart Marketplace, the retailer's website that features millions of items from third-party sellers.
On Tuesday, Chuck Canterbury, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, wrote a public letter to Walmart calling out its Marketplace site for selling merchandise that promotes the Black Lives Matter movement, which organizes protests across the US to draw attention to racism and police brutality.
"Commercializing our differences will not help our local police and communities to built greater trust and respect for one another," Canterbury wrote in the letter.
In response, Walmart said in a statement that it would remove apparel that said, "Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter," from its online store.
"Like other online retailers, we have a marketplace with millions of items offered by third parties that includes Blue Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter merchandise," Walmart said in a statement. "After hearing concerns from customers, we are removing the specific item with the 'bulletproof' reference."
Shirts and hoodies with this "Bulletproof" design have been removed from Walmart's online store.
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How stupid can anyone be? That’s lending revelence to a group that should be dissolved for inciting race wars as well as a danger to police officers everywhere! ALL lives matter!
Where can I get one of those targets?.../s
Walmart refused to pull the BLM merchandise, just the bulletproof items. They are still anti cop except when they need those folks. They still are not selling Blue Lives Matter merchandise. They are crap.
I just checked and they are still available at the online store.
I saw Blue Lives Matter apparel at the online store just now.
But still wrong to make money by stirring up hate and promoting BLM domestic terrorists.
So it’s not “the police”. It is some police “group”. i.e. they are not acting in their official capacity.
I’m a black and white thinker and sometimes don’t mix very well, conversationally, with other people.
In this case, the only issue I was addressing was why the “Police” had a say in what they sell if it is legal to sell it.
I agree that I would not want wal-mart selling such stuff. And as it turns out it was not “the police”, in their official capacity. Rather, it was an affiliation of police officers, separate from their official duties as police officers, expressing disapproval of what Wal-Mart was selling.
I have no problem with that. Sometimes it helps to click on the article and read the whole thing.
“What law, specifically, are they violating?”
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Probably no legal law. But the law of business may be another matter. You don’t tick
off a portion of your customers if you can help it.
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Judging by the body count in Chicago, Philly, St. Louis, etc, the bulletproof thing is a straight up stupid illusion.
Not exactly a bad thing, as I see it..
Excellent!
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