Colin Kaepernick visited New York City's Rikers Island to speak with inmates on Tuesday, as reported by the New York Daily News in an exclusive story.

But not everyone was thrilled by the free-agent quarterback's presence.

That's because a police union told the newspaper that Kaepernick's visit will only trigger inmates into attacking correction officers. Really!? How!?

"This will only encourage inmates to continue to attack Correction Officers at a time when we need more protection," Elias Husamudeen, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, told the Daily News. "Once again, correction officers find themselves caught in Mayor de Blasio's political con-game. This is yet another brazen display of the hypocrisy of this mayor who pretends to support us in public, yet does everything possible to jeopardize our security in private."

Wow.

Peter Thorne, Correction Department spokesperson, didn't see Kaepernick's visit to Rikers like that at all.

“Colin Kaepernick visited Rikers [Tuesday] to share a message of hope and inspiration,” Thorne told the Daily News.

Upon learning about the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association's charge that Kaepernick visiting and speaking with detainees "will only encourage inmates to continue to attack correction officers," Twitter erupted with these reactions.