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flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:22 PM Sep 2020

Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Trump

Source: Newsweek

In a tweet, the National Fraternal Order of Police, which represents over 350,000 members, made the announcement Friday.

The endorsement is the latest that the president, a staunch advocate for law enforcement, has received recently from police-related organizations as he looks to defeat Democratic rival Joe Biden in the upcoming November election. The support came amid nationwide protests in the last few months about systemic racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis while in police custody.

In July, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) gave its stamp of approval for the president. In a statement, NAPO President Michael McHale wrote: "Our endorsement recognizes your steadfast and very public support for our men and women on the front lines, especially during this time of unfair and inaccurate opprobrium being directed at our members by so many."

The following month, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, also backed Trump. "Many times, people say that a union like ours, law enforcement groups, give endorsements," NYC PBA President Patrick Lynch told Trump during an appearance at the president's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. "Not in the New York City PBA, sir. In the New York City PBA, sir, you earn the endorsement and you've earned this endorsement. I'm proud to give it."

Another law enforcement union in New York, the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association, gave Trump an endorsement.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/fraternal-order-police-endorses-trump-president-positions-himself-law-order-candidate-1529785



I guess this is what we're down to. Do we want a police state or not?
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Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Trump (Original Post) flibbitygiblets Sep 2020 OP
Well, of course they do. Which candidate will give them a license to kill? nt JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2020 #1
That says it all PNW-Dem Sep 2020 #2
Just like any endorsement, that doesn't mean they all will vote . . Iliyah Sep 2020 #3
Most will. ForgoTheConsequence Sep 2020 #36
They don't care about the people they are suppose to serve and protect. LiberalFighter Sep 2020 #4
They only protect themselves and serve their own interests. GoneOffShore Sep 2020 #9
Right! Seems to me it could have lots to do with the fact they're afraid of being defunded & losing Illumination Sep 2020 #64
No surprise. Cop unions are awash in cash and run by III-percenter white supremecists PSPS Sep 2020 #5
How to you conclude that these endorsements have anything to do with a "police state"? SharonClark Sep 2020 #6
It is official cops are pigs again. pwb Sep 2020 #7
Again? They never changed. GoneOffShore Sep 2020 #10
Astonishing piece, GOS! CTyankee Sep 2020 #74
Oooh! Be careful. Sinistrous Sep 2020 #61
They endorse a crook? bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #8
Why not they have been known to shoot unarmed people StClone Sep 2020 #62
FOP just answered my lingering questions. It is an organization mainly for the purpose of NCjack Sep 2020 #11
I think it is time to dismantle police unions PatSeg Sep 2020 #41
Assholes endorsed Asshole in 2016 dalton99a Sep 2020 #12
I can't wait for them bamagal62 Sep 2020 #13
Exactly! otchmoson Sep 2020 #29
My first thought as well. nt List left Sep 2020 #33
After Joe wins we will ONE by ONE bluestarone Sep 2020 #14
Trump is "a staunch advocate for law enforcement"? thucythucy Sep 2020 #15
Not helping themselves. milestogo Sep 2020 #16
Next time they call wanting money, guess what I'll tell them? mnhtnbb Sep 2020 #17
I never donate to those creeps. LiberalFighter Sep 2020 #66
BREAKING NEWS: Gestapo endorses Hitler regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #18
No shit, huh! ffr Sep 2020 #49
So the enforcers of law and order LiberalLovinLug Sep 2020 #19
+1 ffr Sep 2020 #51
SAD part is they endorsed him even AFTER bluestarone Sep 2020 #20
It's easy to defund police. Fire all of them. Make them re-apply for their jobs with new ancianita Sep 2020 #21
That may be what some of them and their $pon$er$ want. MarcA Sep 2020 #46
I'm talking about transforming police departments, not doing what militias want. ancianita Sep 2020 #47
Order of Future Concentration Camp Guards & Secret State Policemen Endorses Dear Leader. amb123 Sep 2020 #22
Everything you said. Dawson Leery Sep 2020 #25
The true Enemy of the People, declared. Grokenstein Sep 2020 #23
Wow. I'm shocked. SergeStorms Sep 2020 #24
They're lying coward fascists hiding behind a badge. ancianita Sep 2020 #48
Don't sugar-coat it like that, ancianita.... SergeStorms Sep 2020 #67
The names of some of these Police unions! SMDH flibbitygiblets Sep 2020 #26
They are benevolent to the Police. n/t Mr.Bill Sep 2020 #63
What a shocker. My dad was a cop for 30 years & he despised FOP. catbyte Sep 2020 #27
Stop calling 911 Normanart Sep 2020 #28
And there's a song about that too BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #34
Great post! Thanks! ancianita Sep 2020 #50
Those NYCers have a way with words BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #53
Mos' def ancianita Sep 2020 #54
"...the president, a staunch advocate for law enforcement..." EarlG Sep 2020 #30
They always endorse the GOP candidates BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #31
Fascists see fascists do. ResistantAmerican17 Sep 2020 #32
so the police associations llashram Sep 2020 #35
We are already a de facto police state Miguelito Loveless Sep 2020 #37
Fascist organization. ForgoTheConsequence Sep 2020 #38
It just shows those who lead that group are corrupt rockfordfile Sep 2020 #39
No surprise VA_Jill Sep 2020 #40
Trump is "a staunch advocate for law enforcement"??? CaptainTruth Sep 2020 #42
any time from now on, if i ever , ever get one of these cops begging for money, AllaN01Bear Sep 2020 #43
Blue Knights spike jones Sep 2020 #44
The Fraternal Order of Police have just revealed their determination to continue to abuse Nitram Sep 2020 #45
well, we now know 350,000 cops are fascist pigs. nt yaesu Sep 2020 #52
Be ready for the Sheriffs across the US. to do the SAME!!! bluestarone Sep 2020 #55
I'd like to see a bluestarone Sep 2020 #56
Boycott!! Bondor Sep 2020 #57
I like police Turbineguy Sep 2020 #58
"men and women on the front line" What front line is that? Cobalt Violet Sep 2020 #59
Wonder how police that were in the service feel about Trump right now? rurallib Sep 2020 #60
I know there are some good cops out there, but denvine Sep 2020 #65
Who cares? The people will always outnumber the police, and rightly so. nt Progressive Jones Sep 2020 #68
Fucking pigs. . . . . BigDemVoter Sep 2020 #69
Russian bounty's on our troops are ok... Hip2bSquare Sep 2020 #70
i wonder how many of the FOP are racists, just like their Chief 45 onetexan Sep 2020 #71
National violent white supremacist gang endorses Donald Trump, is this any surprise? n/t Humanist_Activist Sep 2020 #72
"A staunch advocate for law enforcement." malthaussen Sep 2020 #73
Well, that says a lot, doesn't it? Joinfortmill Sep 2020 #75
 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
64. Right! Seems to me it could have lots to do with the fact they're afraid of being defunded & losing
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:08 PM
Sep 2020

their jobs. So then it's about $ & supporting an impeached president? Wow! We are truly in some
insane times!

PSPS

(13,512 posts)
5. No surprise. Cop unions are awash in cash and run by III-percenter white supremecists
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:25 PM
Sep 2020

That's why elected officials cower before them. Their lucre awards them political clout in our broken system.

SharonClark

(10,005 posts)
6. How to you conclude that these endorsements have anything to do with a "police state"?
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:26 PM
Sep 2020

Doesn't it say more about the quality of the people who are drawn to law unforcement that these unions would endorse someone like Trump?

GoneOffShore

(17,309 posts)
10. Again? They never changed.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:32 PM
Sep 2020

Policing in the US is the natural home for authoritarians and 'Law and Order' types. They have no interest in 'The Rule of Law'.

Confessions of A Former Bastard Cop

CTyankee

(63,769 posts)
74. Astonishing piece, GOS!
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 01:00 PM
Sep 2020

Thank you for this riveting experience. After all the dreck we are reading every day in the major newspapers, THIS gets to the essence of what we are dealing with and why change has to be made at the top. It must be done if there is to be any peace to our lives.

Sinistrous

(4,249 posts)
61. Oooh! Be careful.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:07 PM
Sep 2020

The pearl clutchers will rap your knuckles for using that less than complementary term for the pohleese people.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
11. FOP just answered my lingering questions. It is an organization mainly for the purpose of
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:35 PM
Sep 2020

protecting guilty cops.

PatSeg

(46,794 posts)
41. I think it is time to dismantle police unions
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:49 PM
Sep 2020

and perhaps start over again from scratch.

And meanwhile, perhaps police should be required to remain apolitical like the military. It is insane for them to get involved in politics, except as individuals in their private lives.

bamagal62

(3,218 posts)
13. I can't wait for them
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:36 PM
Sep 2020

To call me again to ask for a donation. I think they called my husband a couple of months ago. There won’t just be a hang up in their future. We will engage!!!

thucythucy

(7,986 posts)
15. Trump is "a staunch advocate for law enforcement"?
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:43 PM
Sep 2020

Give me a break.

If anything he's a staunch advocate for himself and his partners in grift being entirely above the law.

If he was an actual advocate of law enforcement he would have given himself up to the proper authorities decades ago.

LiberalFighter

(50,496 posts)
66. I never donate to those creeps.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:21 PM
Sep 2020

Consider the following:
1) The money is also used for lobbying.
2) They don't refer themselves as a labor union. It is police association or FOP.
3) Labor unions - real labor unions do not solicit donations to help support their members from the general public like FOP or other related police groups.
4) Labor unions derived support for members in need from their own members.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
21. It's easy to defund police. Fire all of them. Make them re-apply for their jobs with new
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:49 PM
Sep 2020

pre-conditions for employment. Any qualified immunity they want must be re-earned based on the first two year's service records. If there's community filed complaints of undue force, no raise, no promotion. Either serve and protect or GTFO.

If they don't want those terms they can go join their beloved leader's white supremacist hate militias.

Then the blue line won't exist anymore.

MarcA

(2,195 posts)
46. That may be what some of them and their $pon$er$ want.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:23 PM
Sep 2020

Abolish any well regulated police departments, or attempts at same, and replace them
with unregulated hate militias and blackwater orgs.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
47. I'm talking about transforming police departments, not doing what militias want.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:28 PM
Sep 2020

The fire-rehire model has been tried and improves policing and community safety.

Whoever gets sifted out should honestly declare their neonazi allegiance instead of hiding it behind a badge like lying cowards.

amb123

(1,576 posts)
22. Order of Future Concentration Camp Guards & Secret State Policemen Endorses Dear Leader.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:53 PM
Sep 2020

Not surprised at all. All these Police Protective Leagues, Benevolent Associations and Unions are breeding grounds for Fascists. Law enforcement needs to be prohibited from ever organizing or joining any such groups.

As Calvin Coolidge said when, as Massachusetts Governor he put down the Boston Police Strike in 1919, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, anytime." And that's what they're doing by endorsing Traitor Trump.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
25. Everything you said.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:56 PM
Sep 2020

Coolidge also opposed the idea of having law enforcement make the laws where law enforcement gives themselves more work while denying the freedom to others.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
23. The true Enemy of the People, declared.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:53 PM
Sep 2020

"Unfair and inaccurate opprobrium," huh? Poor babies. I'm struggling to recall the last time an unarmed cop got asphyxiated in the street.

SergeStorms

(18,891 posts)
24. Wow. I'm shocked.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:55 PM
Sep 2020
Fascists are going to flock to other fascists. They've been getting away with murder. They don't want to be held accountable for their actions.

SergeStorms

(18,891 posts)
67. Don't sugar-coat it like that, ancianita....
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 12:12 AM
Sep 2020

tell us how you really feel. It's my belief that holding your emotions in like that causes cancer.

I feel exactly the same way. They enjoy having the power over people's life and death, and they don't want to lose that power. I know a lot of ex-Cops, and if there's one thing they miss it's exercising that power over people. Most of them should never have had that power bestowed upon them.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
26. The names of some of these Police unions! SMDH
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:57 PM
Sep 2020

Are women allowed to join the "Fraternal Order of Police" ? (Also, "FOP" ? Seriously??? )

And the Police Benevolent Association of City of New York? They call themselves that with a straight face?

catbyte

(34,170 posts)
27. What a shocker. My dad was a cop for 30 years & he despised FOP.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:00 PM
Sep 2020

It's just one of the reasons he never got a promotion. I miss my dad.

Normanart

(279 posts)
28. Stop calling 911
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:01 PM
Sep 2020

The police are not going to help you if you are black, and you donʻt need their help if you are white.

EarlG

(21,894 posts)
30. "...the president, a staunch advocate for law enforcement..."
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:10 PM
Sep 2020

HA HA HA.

Sure — unless you’re talking about himself or his friends and family, in which case it’s, “The law? What’s that???”

BumRushDaShow

(127,300 posts)
31. They always endorse the GOP candidates
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:16 PM
Sep 2020

even in "blue" cities like mine.

I expect our chapter of the Guardian Civic League (organization of black police officers) will formally protest this and will express support for Joe Biden like they did for Hillary Clinton back in 2016.

(as a note, the FOP supposedly endorsed Bill Clinton in a departure from their usual GOP focus and neglected to endorse Rmoney, another rare aberration)

llashram

(6,265 posts)
35. so the police associations
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:23 PM
Sep 2020

and their members don't give a damn about vets either. But wait it's the police dept's that many vets apply to when they get home. Many vets are the police. I don't get it. Why would so many of them be so racist? It's not just old school racist cops, the videos show young cops. I guess these associations are banking on trump to save them when he's reelected. They've bought into the lie of defunding and restraint in arrests of unarmed people. And no matter what police reform is necessary now to stop all these unwarranted and racist shootings and killings of unarmed African-Americans.

And don't get me wrong all police are on a tear these days. Police retraining in non-lethal restraint. That's a start if they will abide by it. So much is wrong. And is it just me but all this huge uptick in unwarranted killings didn't start until the republican wars started and the troops started rotating home to civilian lives.. 9/11. Then trump comes into the picture as "law and order" guy.

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,846 posts)
38. Fascist organization.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:29 PM
Sep 2020

During the 1960s the FOP opposed the creation of police review boards, spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy, at one point describing them as a "sinister movement against law enforcement". The FOP also clashed with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on the issue of police brutality, seeing it as a "liberal attempt to discredit law enforcement". The Order was "heartened by Richard Nixon's emphasis on law and order", though it claimed to remain strictly apolitical.


"NOT ALL COPS"
"JUST A FEW BAD APPLES"
BACK THE BLUE"

Fuck em'.

rockfordfile

(8,682 posts)
39. It just shows those who lead that group are corrupt
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:30 PM
Sep 2020

There are a lot of good police officers in our country. But if you endorse a traitor, corrupt and racist that makes you that.

The same goes for any endorsement of those pos GOP Senators.

CaptainTruth

(6,546 posts)
42. Trump is "a staunch advocate for law enforcement"???
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:49 PM
Sep 2020

If you look at the court cases involving Trump's finances, all his Hatch Act violations, etc it looks like Trump is a staunch OPPONENT of law enforcement, at least when the law is being applied to him.

AllaN01Bear

(17,365 posts)
43. any time from now on, if i ever , ever get one of these cops begging for money,
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:01 PM
Sep 2020

bang ,instant hang up from me. i dont like the way they spend my money to endorse the orange fool.

spike jones

(1,654 posts)
44. Blue Knights
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:16 PM
Sep 2020

Last year. I saw a sticker on a car Blue Knights International then found the web site. The club probably does good stuff, but how “ironic” that the police who have been historically associated with the White Knights of the KKK would name their motorcycle club The Blue Knights.
https://blueknights.org/

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
45. The Fraternal Order of Police have just revealed their determination to continue to abuse
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:20 PM
Sep 2020

power and punish minorities and protestors with raw violence. The police have long been under the protection of the law, the courts, and the rest of the system no matter what they do. They will fight tooth and nail to hang onto that advantage. I suggest the police deserve no quarter. Repeal their legal immunity and clean up every police unit in the country. A purge is needed - one based on police records and reports of malfeasance.

Bondor

(63 posts)
57. Boycott!!
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:27 PM
Sep 2020

They ask for money, "no soup for you!" - This is an offensive endorsement for which the police should pay the cost.

rurallib

(62,344 posts)
60. Wonder how police that were in the service feel about Trump right now?
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:58 PM
Sep 2020

You would think they could figure out that they are just pawns in Trump's power grab.

denvine

(797 posts)
65. I know there are some good cops out there, but
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:09 PM
Sep 2020

The police Union really have shown their true colors. Fuck the police union. I have absolutely no respect for them, I do for some individual policemen but their union is run by a bunch of white supremacist assholes. If the police want to salvage their reputations, they need to clean their house.

BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
69. Fucking pigs. . . . .
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 12:45 AM
Sep 2020

I guess they resent the fact that they got interrupted while stuffing their pie holes with donuts.

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