Paul Kempinski, a member of the Fraternal Order of Police district lodge, said Monday that the book is "propaganda that police officers are liars, racists, murderers." "It goes out of its way to characterize police officers like that," said Kempinski, who read the novel and wrote a letter about it, which the union posted on its social media sites Thursday. The union then tagged Broward County Public Schools. The letter said: "I have taken the time to read this book and am in disbelief that this would be a 5th-grade reading assignment, or that this book would be at all approved by the Broward County Public Schools."