Omaha, NE – Protesters left severed pig heads wearing police hats outside the Omaha Police Officers Association (OPOA) building after holding a “pig roast” event at a nearby park on Saturday evening.
“Everything was beautiful,” ProBLAC Omaha leader and event organizer Alexander “Bear” Matthews told the Beatrice Daily Sun. “We were grilling out, and it was just a typical cookout.”
“We wanted to finish up by dropping off the pig heads and the flyers at the union doors,” Matthews added.
The gathering at Montclair Park was organized in protest of a flyer Omaha Police Sergeant Anthony Conner, president of the OPOA, had distributed labeling former Omaha City Council candidate Cammy Watkins as being anti-police, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
A flyer from the Omaha police union describing City Council candidate Cammy Watkins as a danger to public safety has provoked outrage among some on social media and a fracture in her opponent s campaign.
Seven people were arrested Saturday night during a protest outside the Omaha police union hall that included leaving three pig heads in costume police caps on the grounds.
An Omaha police spokesman said pending charges include trespassing, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct, obstructing, littering and unlawful assembly. Social media posts by some who attended the protest said all of the arrestees, including Alexander âBearâ Matthews, were bailed out of jail early Sunday.