Holding Pattern
If you’re working with a police association in a major media market with a big name NFL franchise or a college sports team, you’re probably busy drafting letters to athletes, owners, and others protesting the misguided “hands-up” non-protests staged by individuals and organizations in the wake of the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and New York City. Association officials might even be having a hard time just figuring out who to yell at first. It’s almost like these athletes and university people have it in for the cops or something. Case in point: this university president who took part in a “die-in.”