A Louisville Metro Police Department major ripped “woke” Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters in a newly revealed email reportedly sent last month.
“Do not stop [sic] to their level. Do not respond to them. If we do, we only validate what they did. Don’t make them important, because they are not,” Maj. Bridget Hallahan reportedly wrote in an email to her colleagues at the LMPD. “They will be the ones washing our cars, cashing us out at the Walmart, or living in their parents’ basement playing COD for their entire life.”
“These ANTIFA and BLM people, especially the ones who just jumped on the bandwagon ‘yesterday’ because they became ‘woke’ (insert eye roll here), do not deserve a second glance or thought from us. Our little pinky toenails have more character, morals, and ethics, than these punks have in their entire body.”
“There is currently no recourse we have for incidents involving the doxing of officers or their families. What we can do is speak up against them and put the truth out there,” Hallahan wrote. “Through the PIO office and the LMPD FB page, we will come back at them on their own page to let them and everyone else know they are lying. We will print the facts. I will see to it.”
Hallahan, the commander of LMPD’s 5th Division, could not be reached by the Courier-Journal. Sgt. Lamont Washington said an investigation into the email is underway.
Councilman Brandon Coan called the comments “out of character” for Hallahan and “shocking.”
“I think it’s a totally unacceptable attitude of any police officer and extremely poor leadership from a major. I think she owes the community an apology, and she’ll have to deal with the consequences of her conduct,” Coan said.
Councilman Bill Hollander recommended to the mayor that Hallahan be dismissed from her command of the 5th District.
“It’s making constituents wonder what kind of people we’re really employing and promoting to leadership positions. And that’s very unfortunate. Our police officers have a very difficult job, and they don’t need this kind of inappropriate communication,” he said.
Hallahan’s message wasn’t the first controversial email emanating from the Louisville Police Department this week.
Sgt. Jon Mattingly, who was at the scene when LMPD officers shot Breonna Taylor, wrote an email to 1,000 LMPD officers, saying that the officers did the “legal, moral and ethical thing” on the night Taylor was killed. Taylor’s family settled with the city of Louisville for $12 million and promised to reform the police department.
Hallahan’s leaked email comes after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that no LMPD officers had been indicted by a grand jury in the death of 26-year-old Taylor. Former Detective Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for putting Taylor’s neighbors in danger during the execution of the no-knock warrant.
