It seems that Congressman Duncan Hunter had it with the disgusting display of a painting depicting police officers as literal pigs when he removed it from display in the Capitol yesterday. He and a couple of his colleagues delivered it to the office of Representative Lacy Clay, a Democrat, from Missouri who allowed it to be displayed. The painting had been included as part of a display of student art from a competition that had taken place in St. Louis and was sponsored by Rep. Lacy.

It wasn’t just Congressman Hunter that had strong feelings of disgust over this tacky piece of societal commentary, over 27,000 law enforcement professionals across the country had been protesting the painting which had been described as “reprehensible, repugnant and repulsive”.  Those included such organizations as the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York, and the San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland Police Officers Associations who all banded together to state that the painting represented a false narrative that “portrays law enforcement professionals as posing a danger to the very communities we serve. That is untrue and this ‘art’ reinforces this false narrative and is disrespectful on so many levels”. In my opinion it seems to have been some sort of half baked comment on the #BlackLivesMatter movement by a young student artist.