Baltimore Police union slams SNL's "grossly inapt portrayal"

The Baltimore Sun

Last week's "Traffic Stop" sketch featuring Ego Nwodim and Leslie Jones as Baltimore Police officers who stop and flirt with Seth Meyers' drunk driver character didn't go over well with the Baltimore Police union. “Many of our members, especially our younger ones, are struggling with their choice of career and we are losing good and credible members daily," Lt. Gene Ryan, the president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, wrote in a letter to Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels on Wednesday. "It is a difficult time in Baltimore and to portray our brave, hard-working members with such an inappropriate manner is very unfortunate."