As the head of a national 501C(3) charity caring for police officers and their families, monitoring on-line harassment and threats aimed at our members and our profession has become part of my responsibility. While most on-line threats are hollow and the creation of “keyboard warriors”, every threat must be treated at face value, especially in a day and age where violence against law enforcement is almost glorified.
Established in 2014, Brothers Before Others’ goal was to provide a floral arrangement for every line of duty death in the country, regardless of where it took place...a goal we have flawlessly accomplished. Since that time, we have grown into so much more, providing care for, not just the law enforcement community, but our local communities as well.
We maintain virtually every form of social media and our work speaks for itself.
It has come to my attention that an employee of the Voorhees(NJ) Dunkin Donuts, Dylan Taggert, who also goes by ‘Mort Rainey’ on Facebook (an obvious spin off the Stephen King character), has been very active on anti-law enforcement social media pages, one of which is called the “Fat Blue Line”, obviously mocking the well known ‘Thin Blue Line’ reference to law enforcement.
While most of the nonsense he takes part in is just that, he has been aggressively calling for “trolling”...essentially on-line bullying...of our social media pages, as well as other pro-law enforcement pages. He has also been active on posts calling for harm to police officers, using the common #ACAB, which in anti-law enforcement circles stands for “All Cops Are Bastards”.
While I am sure I speak for all those effected, I can only represent our page.
Due to the nature of our page and the people we interact with as a charity, our public page(s) is commonly visited by line of duty death families. Those families do not deserve having to come to our page and be harassed. More importantly, it is even more disgusting that your employee would call for this harassment of our charity, given the nature of the work we do.
The right to free speech is a right we should all hold dear; and your employee should be free to speak his mind and have his views free of persecution. However, there is a difference between persecution and consequences. And it is my opinion and the opinion of the local police that Dunkin Donuts services that his words, actions and clear bias warrant some consequence.
We are officially calling in Dunkin Donuts to take a stand on the opinions of those who represent them. As a company whose slogan is “America Runs on Dunkin”, you would think they would have a vested interest on what their own employees are “running” on.
A lack of consequence or action can only be viewed as endorsement and acceptance and will be noted as such.
Just as your employee(s) enjoy free speech, so do our charity members, and we intend to use it accordingly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Michael J...
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