{As evidenced ina photo on the Antioch Police Department’ website, the tank sends the wrong ‘message tothe community and absolutely sends the wrong message to prospective police office candidates | willalso be advancing a measure that bars board members of the police union, in our case, the Antioch Police Officers Association, from serving 2s members ofthe internal affairs team. the community sto trust you and established processes, there must be a clear line of delineation between union leaders elected to represent police oficers who may have committed misconduct and those charged with investigating those officers, To move our ity forward, tough decisions must be made now. In that spit, the ‘decommissioning ofthe tank and the separation of union board leaders fom internal afi will send the very clear message thatthe ct of Antioch is genuinely commvtted to reforming the Culture ofthe Antioch Paice Department Respectufly, Qod Lamar A thorpe Mayor