On Saturday evening, the Metropolitan Police Department published a seemingly innocuous tweet about a group of residents delivering lunch to officers in the Second District.

But screenshots show this wasn’t the only draft of the tweet — just minutes earlier, the department’s official account appeared to tag Breitbart News, a far-right website that former head Steve Bannon has described as a “platform for the alt-right,” in the tweet. “Today in the Second District, members from @BreitbartNews & 2D residents stopped by to deliver lunch to our officers and show appreciation for their great work,” screenshots of the tweet read.

Three minutes later, that tweet appeared to be deleted and replaced with one devoid of any mention of Breitbart.

The backlash on Twitter was swift, with users noting the apparent deleted reference to the website. One person replied to the revised tweet, “I see you have regrets. Explain.” Another person wrote, “gosh wonder how anyone could imagine thinking mpd has a white supremacist problem what with the company y’all keep.”

MPD did not respond to additional questions about its tweets, and why it appeared to first tag Breitbart in a tweet and then delete it.

Breitbart livestreamed the lunch event on its Facebook page, where it showed both white and Black officers taking lunch. In the video, Ward 5 resident Nestride Yumga, who had organized the lunch drop-off, spoke with the outlet while still in the police station. In the video Yumga, who is Black and originally from Cameroon, calls Black Lives Matter “a sham” and said that African Americans are “the most violent race.”

Breitbart’s vice president of PR, Elizabeth Moore, told DCist in a statement that the site “did not sponsor, fund, pay for, or participate in this event. We merely reported on it.”

More than a day after the lunch and apparently deleted tweet, the Metropolitan Police Department released a statement Sunday saying they were unaware of plans for the interview and condemned the statements made by Yumga.

“Yesterday, MPD was approached by D.C. community members who wanted to show their appreciation by donating food to our officers. We welcomed them into our community room as we do with most guests who provide donations,” an MPD spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement to DCist. “MPD condemns and does not support the statements made by the individuals in the video nor is MPD affiliated with any political party or news organization. MPD is committed to safeguarding DC residents and visitors, regardless of race, religion, orientation, identity, or political views.”

Yumga, a health care professional who has been featured in previous Breitbart stories, told DCist that the site contacted her about filming her visit to the police station. She said she stands by her comments at the precinct.

She also added in a follow-up text conversation that her message is about how “economically challenged communities will be most impacted without the police.”

Last Saturday, Yumga also visited MPD’s Fifth District to deliver food in a show of appreciation and says she plans on visiting every precinct. She would not share where she was planning to go next week “for safety reasons.”

The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on MPD’s reported tweet tagging Breitbart. But at Tuesday’s press conference, Mayor Muriel Bowser said she was “perplexed” by how it happened. “It appears that a community member went into our station and had a different agenda than what the police officers thought it was, and certainly somebody in our PIO shop made a very bad mistake in attaching that picture or post to Breitbart News, which we totally disavow,” Bowser said. She said that the situation would be handled internally.

Ward 6 D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen did address the tweet and event in a Sunday late night letter to Kevin Donahue, the deputy mayor for public safety and justice. In the letter, Allen, who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, asks for MPD to explain why officers believed it would be appropriate to allow Breitbart — which he called a “far right, racist media site” — into the community room and to share the visit on social media. The incident “show[ed] serious lapses in judgment and leadership,” wrote Allen.

At Monday’s D.C.’s Council Budget hearing, Allen also said that he found it “deeply offensive” that MPD “decided it would be a good idea to partner with Breitbart to have a luncheon.”

Marya Pickering, a Republican candidate for the at-large D.C. Council seat, was also at the event and was interviewed by Breitbart. She told the outlet she was there to support her “hometown heroes,” called out the current D.C. Council for “corrupt practices,” warned against “lawlessness,” and compared the actions of Nazis to “what the Marxists are trying to do here.”

DCist reached out to Pickering for comment on her decision to be interviewed by Breitbart but did not immediately hear back.

As for the inflammatory comments made in the video, this isn’t the first time that Yumga has been featured on Breitbart News. On June 1, she was shown in a video on the website confronting protesters, calling them “racists” and the Black Lives Matter movement “a joke.” She later wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled “Violence Threatens Black Lives.”

Breitbart continues to make news themselves. Earlier this month, the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League called for a boycott on buying ads on Facebook due in part to the company tagging Breitbart as a “trusted news source,” despite the site’s affiliation with the far right and consistent accusations that it spreads hate speech and misinformation.

In recent weeks, the outlet has posted stories about the protests with headlines including “‘White Lives Matter’ Man Fired, ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’ Prof Promoted” and “Saturday’s Washington, DC Protest Was a Big Flop.”

This post was updated with Mayor Bowser’s comments from Tuesday.