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US police union that backed Trump says January 6 pardons send ‘dangerous message’
(www.theguardian.com)
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They (the police union) backed the person that instigated an attack on police and the capital, and are surprised that said person (trump) pardoned the attackers, when he said he would pardon the attackers.
Holy fuck, I thought I was stupid.
They'd be so mad at your comment if they could read.
They thought they would always be on the "source" side of the batons and the big sprays of bear mace. There were a lot of weird little deflections and explanations what happened on January 6th and why for one reason or another it didn't count. There were some cops and ex-cops in the crowd. Just a few. Now that it's being made clear on a national level that any cops anywhere might find themselves on the "recipient" end, with full support all the way up the chain, it's a whole different story and a big problem all of a sudden, I guess.
I say great. Sounds awesome. It should be a perfectly natural alignment of the local cops against the lawless maniacs who Trump wants to turn loose on America. That's how it worked out four years ago. If Trump wants to make it loud and public that he'd like to firmly align the cops on our side of the coming divide, against his small handful of maniacs on his side, I say that sounds absolutely fantastic and I welcome the development.
to be the devils advocate. Most of them also stupidly expected them to honor his word that he would move through the list of pardons with a fine comb, and that people who participated peacefully were pardoned but the people who were violent during the protest were not.
Spoiler alert: He didn't. I personally think his descision to just blanket pardon was done last minute, I think it was decided the moment he was told about Bidens last second pardons. He's never had very good anger management, so I think he did it out of anger. Which also doesn't look good.