For police in Hahira, Georgia, it was a chilling reminder of the hostile climate in which they say police across the country are currently operating.

As in literally chilling—a cooler, placed in an intersection sometime Sunday morning, was scrawled with odd, racially-charged messages and Hahira Police Chief Terry Davis is interpreting it as a threat. 

“It was a styrofoam cooler, and it had all kinds of rants on it,” Davis said. “It referenced Ferguson, organs and said cops kill 100 percent. This was definitely intended for us to find and send a message.”

Writing on the cooler also included, “Discount organs,” “These came from Ferguson victims” and “Cop shot 100% Sub-Nubian.” The cooler also had a 904 area code (Jacksonville, Florida) phone number written on it. 

On top of the cooler was a lewd description of actress Halle Berry.

Davis said police were initially concerned the cooler could be a bomb.

“We called the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation), and they brought a robot in,” Davis saud. “It was duct taped-down. They cut the duct tape and opened it up, and there was a bottle with liquid inside it. We are in the process of processing it now.”

Davis said his department “didn’t take any chances” while investigating the cooler because of the anti-police writing, especially considering the timing. 

The cooler was discovered the morning after a Texas sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed while fueling his patrol car at a gas station near Houston.

Not long after news of the shooting broke, Black Lives Matter protestors were filmed chanting “pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon” during a march at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

St. Paul Police Federation President Dave Titus called the demonstration “ignorant and disgusting.”

“I don’t think chanting or singing what’s basically promoting killing police officers is peaceful,” Titus told WCCO-TV.

Davis agrees, calling the cooler incident an example of “of how law enforcement is being targeted.”

HPD Lt. Shannon Kingston said she will be conducting fingerprint analysis on the cooler in hopes of identifying who placed it at the intersection.

“I’m hoping we can find DNA and a fingerprint of the person,” Davis said. “We are going to prosecute.”

Details for this story were provided by the Valdosta (Georgia) Daily Times.