FOP backs Trump.
The Fraternal Order of Police is very screwed up. It is fitting that they support Trump who is even more screwed up.
The FOP made their position clear in 2021. It was to support the J6 rioters no matter who was injured. One of the union officers even denied that any police officers were injured or that the riot was violent. https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/1/8/22220757/chicago-police-union-fop-president-john-catanara-apologizes-remarks-capitol-mob
“There was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting, there was very little destruction of property. … There’s no fights. There’s no, obviously, violence in this crowd. They pushed past security and made their way to the Senate chamber. Did they destroy anything when they were there? No.”
This is how John Catanara says "F*ck the police" without saying the word police. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/duty-police-were-part-capitol-mob-some-police-unions-feel-n1255061 Catanara is a vile person, why would the FOP want him representing them?
2024 FOP Endorses Trump!
Nation’s Oldest and Largest Police Labor Organization Will Support Trump on Election Day
https://fop.net/2024/09/fop-endorses-trump/
"During his first term, President Trump made it clear he supported law enforcement and border security,” Yoes said. “In the summer of 2020, he stood with us when very few would. With his help, we defeated the ‘defund the police’ movement and, finally, we are seeing crime rates decrease. If we want to maintain these lower crime rates, we must re-elect Donald Trump.”
What a bunch of crap. The FOP is defending police officers who participated in the J6 riot.
What Mike Fanone Can’t Forget
https://time.com/6087577/michael-fanone-january-6-interview/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFJ1c9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHa8kuDUNkDc__w42RRgHAEqcxzJY7dtRabVG14qWj6MJgtGFwYET7lLXog_aem_URkmANRRm4_gcSTekY4aEg
The day Fanone was dragged down the Capitol’s marble stairs, beaten with pipes and poles, tear-gassed and stun-gunned. The day he pleaded for his life as they threatened to shoot him with his own gun, telling the rioters he had kids, until they relented and spared him.share
“There’s people on both sides of the political aisle that are like, ‘Listen, Jan. 6 happened, it was bad, we need to move on as a country,’”
“What an arrogant f-cking thing for someone to say that wasn’t there that day,” he says. “What needs to happen is there needs to be a reckoning.”