'Blue Lives Murder' Shirts On Amazon Sparks Outrage

Several people were outraged when T-shirts printed with “Blue Lives Murder” were put on sale on Amazon.

According to the New York Post, Sgt. Joe Imperatrice of the New York Police Department and founder of the Blue Lives Matter-NYC said that many people all over the U.S. reached out to him about their outrage and concern over the shirts.

Although he understands the tension and the hostility of the public toward police officers following the death of George Floyd and the nationwide protests it sparked, he thinks that these products are just fueling the anti-cop sentiments.

“It shows that [Amazon is] bending over backwards for this movement like many other companies are. That’s not OK,” Imperatrice said. “People can’t be making shirts up, turning people against [cops]. It’s going to cost somebody, more than likely a police officer, their life.”

He reiterated how important it was to take down the shirts immediately to avoid putting police officers’ lives at risk and to prevent the growing anti-cop mentality.

The shirts were manufactured by the company COTINAC, the NY Post reported, and were being sold on Amazon for $19.99 plus shipping.

Some reviews on the site’s webpage described the shirt as “disgusting” and said that it “promotes, incites and glorifies hatred”.

Amazon did not respond to a request for comments about the products.

Since George Floyd's death, the widespread outrage caused several cases of police officers getting assaulted and demonstrations turning violent.

“We’ve got to be smarter than this,” Imperatrice said. “We have to be smarter than this rhetoric that police officers are all bad. [Officers are] taking abuse more than the likes of any generation.”