Houston’s police chief on Thursday distanced his agency from comments made by the head of the police officers’ union that seemed to imply this week’s shooting that injured five officers during a drug raid was due in part to anti-police rhetoric. In the days since the shooting, Gamaldi appeared on Fox News and continued to criticize community activists who have “severely just made our officers the enemy. At a Thursday news conference, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo called Gamaldi’s comments “over the top” and worried they could hurt the good relationship police in the nation’s fourth largest city have with community activists. I’m talking about activists who call for the death of police officers.”Woods said he believes Acevedo did not sufficiently denounce Gamaldi’s comments. Acevedo said he plans to soon meet with local community activists to discuss this incident.

Source: National Post February 01, 2019 02:26 UTC