The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
commemorated coppers who had bit the dust in the line of duty in 2019 and 2020 in a speech at the Capitol building on Saturday. "There’s too much pain. There’s too much loss. There’s too much at stake for your safety and the safety of those you serve," Biden said at the National Peace Officers’ annual memorial service.There’s also too much interference by politicians for the police to do an effective job. And there’s too little support by Democratic politicians of the police forces that keep their cities from blowing up.
There’s a clear disconnect between what Biden was saying about the heroism of police and the fact that he and other politicians have abandoned them.
Washington Post:
The 2020 killing of St. George Floyd
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
by a Minneapolis police officer brought millions into the streets to call for police reform and a dismantling of systemic racism
...the idea that the nation is racist to the core, always was, and always will be. 330 million Americans live in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and we're never, ever leaving...
. "Defund the police" became a rallying cry for some and a source of derision for others. The polarization was exacerbated asviolentmostly peaceful crime ticked up in American cities and local leaders looked to police to curb the violence.
Floyd’s family spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, where Biden was nominated. And as president, Biden invited the Floyds to a White House meeting on the anniversary of his killing.
Biden said nothing about the way that Floyd’s murder while in police custody was used by politicians and activists — including radical revolutionaries — to portray all police as being guilty of racism and "targeting" black people for death. The white-hot anti-police rhetoric by Black Lives Matter has directly led to the deaths of several coppers — bumped off for the simple reason that they wore blue.
Most recently, a Houston, Texas, deputy constable working a "police-related extra job" was shot and killed while two other constables were maimed in what authorities say was an "ambush" shooting.