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| July 31, 2003
At the recent City Hall wake of Councilman James Davis, a police officer from DCPI at the request of the Mayor’s office politely asked Councilman Charles Barron to move off the steps where he was conducting an interview with a reporter. To maintain the dignity of the wake, the Mayor’s office had designated an area for the press to conduct all interviews. In response to the police officer’s request, Barron unleashed a verbal assault on the officer using foul language in an abusive and dismissive manner. When a member of the Mayor’s press office made the same request, she too was met with abusive and vulgar language from Barron. As we all know, a police officer’s job is difficult and challenging. We often have to take the abuse of protestors or criminals during the performance of our lawful duties. Our members certainly don’t need to be subjected to that kind of abuse from elected officials who should know better and who should show proper respect to police officers in the performance of their duties. On behalf of all of our members and the offended police officer, I have written to Council Speaker Gifford Miller to request a formal reprimand of Councilman Barron for his vulgar and disrespectful actions.
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