Miami police unveiled a Black History Month-inspired vehicle wrap, but it drew some criticism online from activists who said it was tone deaf and ignored the pressing issues facing the Black community.
“Miami Police Supports Black History Month,” reads a message on the vehicle’s back window. The wrap and a Black History Month-inspired police badge were unveiled at the Black Precinct Courthouse and Museum in a ceremony attended by city officials, police officials and current and former Black officers. The event was to memorialize Miami’s history of segregation and the efforts by Black officers and officials to push for integration, Mayor Francis Suarez said.
, the executive director of the City of Miami Civilian Investigative Panel, a citizens police oversight group, said he believed the union’s heart was in the right place but the wrap missed the mark. “On the backdrop of it, when you have people asking for so much from police departments, especially Black and brown people, and you offer them, here’s a police car with a wrap on it, that it’s going to fall flat for most people,” he told CNN affiliate WPLG’s Christina Boomer Vazquez.
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