To the editor:
After working 20 years as a correctional officer and four years as a police commissioner in Connecticut, my family and I decided to move to Peterborough in search of a friendly community and to live the quiet life.
I have very thick skin and there is almost nothing that personally offends me, however when I drove by the Unitarian Church and saw a Black Lives Matter banner hanging from a place of worship I can honestly say I was offended. There are over one million law enforcement personnel in the United States who willingly put themselves in harm’s way daily to protect the citizens in their communities regardless of race. I am shocked that a church would be so boldly divisive and support an organization that advocates for violence against law enforcement personnel.
No matter what propaganda Joel and Anne Huberman read on the Black Lives Matter website, one only has to look at the conduct of the followers and protestors to see that it is a hate group. Charles Wade, a Black Lives Matter leader, was charged with sex trafficking, and in New York City they chanted, “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.”
I call on the Unitarian Church to be a source of community unity, not division. All lives matter.
Kevin Brace
Peterborough