Mukherjee won’t be disciplined for Facebook post

WATCH: TPSB Chair Alok Mukherjee will keep his seat despite sharing a controversial Facebook post. Dave Trafford reports.

TORONTO – Toronto’s Police Services Board sees no reason to discipline Chair Alok Mukherjee for a Facebook post that enraged the Toronto Police Association.

Association President Mike McCormack took issue with an image Mukherjee posted, taken from Occupy Wall Street, that compared the number of people in the United States killed by Ebola and ISIS to the number killed by police. At the top of the post, Mukherjee wrote “I can’t breathe”! – a reference to the last words of Eric Garner, who died after being put in a chokehold by a New York City police officer. A coroner found Garner’s death to be a homicide, but a Grand Jury decided Pantaleo won’t be charged.

Mukherjee said he was trying to start a discussion but later admitted he could have better contextualized the post.

Mukherjee said McCormack’s calls for his resignation were part of a “smear campaign,” but nonetheless wrote an explanatory letter and deactivated his Facebook account.