The number of Black Lives Matter protest has sky rocketed especially with the high number of police brutality stories that are now surfacing around. Our people are now fed up and demanding justice. We are now looking to have our voices heard by all means. Maybe not all agree though. Tony Lepore was recently fired after organizing a protest against a Dunkin Donuts worker who wrote “#BlackLivesMatter” on his cup.
Lepore organized a protest against BLM after a Dunkin Donuts employee wrote #BlackLivesMatter on his cup. He was then fired after. Lepore was a traffic director. He had retired from the force in 1989. Public Safety Commissioner, Steven M. Paré says that people may have started to believe that the Providence Police Department was behind the protest when they weren’t.
“Mr. Lepore was not authorized to speak on behalf of the Providence Police Department and his actions were, in my judgment, a disservice to the department and to members of the Providence community.”
Lepore released a statement saying,
“I had a mission to make sure all police officers were treated like police officers, not like dirt. I feel bad I’m not going to be there anymore, but I had a good run. I had a good run. I’m known all over the country, but I wasn’t doing it for myself. I was doing it for the town. It gave the town so much publicity. No one knew where Rhode Island was in 1984.”
