The guild president, Officer Mike Solan, has come under fire for apparently promoting the debunked theory that members of antifa played a meaningful role in last week’s deadly riot in D.C.
“As the [mainstream media] point to one group as being the culprits, clearly evidence also shows another group w/ a history of riotous criminal actions,” Solan said in a tweet late last week. “Far right and far left are responsible for that sad day,” he added.
Those comments, and his subsequent defense of them, have further soured an already-fraught relationship with City Hall and have spurred warring between the competing parties before either has even sat down at the
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