{"id":637906,"date":"2021-08-12T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637906"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:36:32","slug":"blm-chicago-shares-fabricated-email-threat-from-police-union-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-chicago-shares-fabricated-email-threat-from-police-union-president\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Chicago Shares Fabricated Email Threat From Police Union President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-chicago-shares-fabricated-email-threat-from-police-union-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3492.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s Black Lives Matter chapter accused the president of the city&#8217;s police union of threatening the group in an email. Within hours, the left-wing organization revealed the message was fake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to everyone for sharing how to authenticate an email,&#8221; tweeted BLM Chicago, the city&#8217;s branch of the anti-police movement, on Wednesday. &#8220;We get hate mail, death threats via email, phone, messenger, etc daily, however this was a new one from a seemingly official account. Each one teach one. We appreciate our village.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours earlier, the organization posted a screenshot of a fake email that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLMChi\/status\/1425469546224365581?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> to be from Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president John Catanzara. &#8220;TIMES UP FOR THUGLIVESMATTER! WERE [sic] COMING FOR YOU HOMEBOYS,&#8221; the message read, according to BLM Chicago&#8217;s screenshot. The group, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklivesmatterchicago.com\/ban-defund-cpd-demands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> for a 75 percent cut to the city&#8217;s police budget, accused Catanzara of sending the message from his police union email.<\/p>\n<p>Catanzara on Wednesday pushed back, saying the email was &#8220;fabricated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly, it is false, misleading, and extremely troubling that your organization would repost such an inflammatory email without verifying its authenticity,&#8221; Catanzara <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagofop.org\/news\/latest-news\/re-blm-post\/?id=fd97a502-bb0b-4f93-b83a-c7e81c2999be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>BLM Chicago, which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLMChi\/status\/1425493773254078469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it sent a copy of the threatening message to its lawyers, posted an email authentication of the message, which showed it was forged with a fake sender address. The organization, however, did not delete the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLMChi\/status\/1425469546224365581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screenshot<\/a> of the fake email, which was &#8220;liked&#8221; by thousands of Twitter users, by publishing time.<\/p>\n<p>BLM Chicago&#8217;s false accusation against Catanzara came just days after the police union president <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/too-damn-late-chicago-police-union-head-slams-mayor-lightfoot-after-officer-slain\/\">criticized<\/a> Mayor Lori Lightfoot&#8217;s relationship with the city&#8217;s police, saying the Democrat has &#8220;vilified&#8221; Chicago&#8217;s law enforcement officers. The mayor is a vocal proponent of police reform and has accused the city&#8217;s department of having a &#8220;fraught relationship with minority communities, stemming from historical racism, decades of mistreatment, and unconstitutional and questionable policing practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions remained high between Lightfoot and Chicago police after assailants killed 29-year-old officer Ella French on the city&#8217;s South Side on Saturday. Police officers turned their backs on Lightfoot when she visited the University of Chicago Medical Center, where French&#8217;s partner is receiving treatment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-police-officers-turn-their-backs-on-mayor-lightfoot-after-officer-killed\/2586147\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to local reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s Black Lives Matter chapter accused the president of the city&#8217;s police union of threatening the group in an email. 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