The Chicago Police Department’s official Twitter page is being investigated by internal affairs for liking country star Travis Tritt’s boycott of Bud Light beers over its partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Screenshots shared online showed how the @Chicago_Police, the “official feed” of the force, had liked Tritt’s now-viral tweet Wednesday about “deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality ride.”
“Seems incredibly irresponsible coming from an official police account,” wrote Jeff Wittekiend, one of those sharing the image.
By Friday, the department had removed its “like” of Tritt’s tweet, which has been viewed more than 20 million times and liked by more than 192,500 users, despite the singer having just 363,000 followers.
However, a spokesperson for the department confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that a complaint was being investigated by its Bureau of Internal Affairs.
Wittekiend — who shared his screenshot of the like with a “radical media and research collective” — guessed that the like was by an officer who thought they were using a personal feed, not the force’s official one.
A Chicago Police Department spokesperson confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that a complaint was being investigated by the Bureau of Internal Affairs.
“It’s not surprising that there are folks associated with the Chicago Police Department public relations team who would agree with these anti-trans ideas,” Wittekiend told the Sun-Times
“It would have been surprising if it would have been intentionally liked on the official Twitter page.”
Tritt was just the latest high-profile personality to take aim at the Bud Light campaign that produced cans with Mulvaney’s face on them while celebrating the transgender influencer’s “365 days of womanhood.”
The force’s official Twitter page liked Tritt’s boycott of Bud beers over its hookup with Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney/Instagram“American Bad Ass” singer Kid Rock even went so far as shooting up cases of the beer, then flipping the bird while saying: “F–k Bud Light, and f–k Anheuser-Busch.”
As the controversy raged, Mulvaney posted a new partnership with Nike — sparking new calls for a boycott.
Tritt’s boycott post has been viewed more than 20 million times and liked by more than 192,500 users. Getty Images“The only way we can actually make these companies and make governments listen is to boycott with our wallet,” retired Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, 60, said of her own Nike boycott.
