The cops are endorsing Trump, NBC
And we're not talking about endorsing him in 2016, which was dumb enough, or in 2020, by then obvious he was in fact an active threat to public safety and national security. But, now, in 2024, when we know Trump is the first convicted felon candidate for president in American history. We know he allied with Putin, a murderous dictator hostile to the US, in attempts to cheat in both the 2016 and 2020 elections, and was impeached for the second attempt. We know he instigated a violent failed coup attempt against the capitol police, injuring over a hundred police officers. We know he stole and refused to return boxes of top secret national security documents. We know his entire business empire is built on financial fraud.
And, most directly relevant to the jobs of the police, we know Trump spreads violence against government officials, judges, election workers, immigrants, BLM protesters, LGBTQ+ people, anyone who opposes him politically.
Of course the police, charged with protecting and serving public safety, should not be endorsing a violent criminal and an active threat to public safety and national security like Trump. His alliance with the police is a terrifying cliche of fascist movements since Mussolini.
Okay, so defunding the police was not a good idea. Still weird how that one bad idea has seemed to scuttle and push aside entirely any of the great push for police reform in the summer of 2020. Especially when an action like this by the police screams out how badly we still need that police reform.
We should assume that the cop who killed Sonya Massey, a cop who reportedly had worked for six different law enforcement agencies in the previous four years, and during which time he was charged twice with DUIs, was in good standing with the police union, right?
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