Kreher: ‘I want to beat’ mayor in head

The leader of Atlanta’s police union said he felt like clubbing Mayor Shirley Franklin with a baseball bat over the difficulty some officers are having getting workers compensation from the city.

“I want to beat [Franklin] in the head with a baseball bat sometimes when I think about it,” an angry and frustrated Atlanta police Sgt. Scott Kreher told City Council members Wednesday.

Kreher’s comments came during a budget hearing.

The mayor was out of town Wednesday. Asked for comment, the mayor’s office released a statement calling Kreher’s remarks deplorable.

“It is irresponsible for a member of the Atlanta Police Department to make such a reprehensible comment about the mayor,” Franklin’s chief of staff, Greg Pridgeon, said in the statement. “The mayor has tremendous respect for the men and women of the Police Department … we can respectfully agree to disagree but his comments today were inappropriate, inflammatory and disrespectful.”