Law enforcement officials are calling for Amazon to remove items being sold on its website that include a “Blue Lives Murder” slogan immediately.
“It’s disheartening that your company would allow this disgusting motto on your sales platform,” the Detectives’ Endowment Association wrote in a letter to Amazon’s chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky.
“It has come to my attention that your website is selling tee-shirts (sic) and other items emblazoned with the words ‘Blue Lives Murder,’” the letter said, calling for the apparels’ removal.
The “only purpose is to invite further division, hatred, and violence toward the hard-working men and women of the nation’s Police Departments, who are toiling every day to keep their communities safe.”
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Such items, which include T-shirts, face masks, and vinyl stickers, also put law enforcement lives at risk, the letter said.
“To continue to hawk products emblazoned with this vile phrase puts the lives of Police Officers, and all law enforcement nationwide, at peril and risk,” the letter said.
Retired Las Vegas police officer Randy Sutton criticized Amazon’s decision to continue selling the products, saying CEO Jeff Bezos is “so engaged in profit or he is simply tone-deaf to what is happening across America.”
“I know that Amazon is a huge company, and I understand that a company does not have a soul: I get that. But companies are made of people, and Jeff Bezos is a human being, is a person,” Sutton said during a Tuesday segment on Fox & Friends.
“I believe somewhere in there is maybe someone that has humanity. What he’s demonstrating here is either he is so engaged in profit, or he simply is tone-deaf to what’s happening across America and the plight of American law enforcement officers who literally are being demonized and dehumanized by the Left,” he added.
A T-shirt with the “Blue Lives Murder” slogan being sold on Amazon has mostly received negative reviews.
Sixty-five percent of people gave the product a 1-star rating, with reviews calling it “UnAmerican,” “hate speech,” “trash,” “distasteful,” and something that “promote[s] hatred and intolerance.”
The slogan is a reference to a pro-police movement, “Blue Lives Matter,” which was started in response to growing anti-police sentiments that came from the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
The FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted database shows that violence against law enforcement officials has risen 31.6% in the first few months of 2021.
“By the end of April, police departments had reported a total of 25 police officers killed in felony attacks. At the same time last year, that number was 19,” WCIA reported this week.
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“That number has already surged higher, up to 31 officers killed in felony attacks as of May 26th. That’s 55% higher than the 20 officers killed at this time last year. The FBI stats show 12 of the officers were killed in unprovoked attacks,” the report added.
The 2021 figure is projected to exceed the 48 officers who were killed in felony attacks in 2019 and the 46 officers who were killed in 2020.
Correction: This post has been updated to reflect Brian Olsavsky’s position at Amazon, not the Detectives’ Endowment Association.
