Ofc. Fanone says he cannot get the Fraternal Order of Police to do ANYTHING to back the Capitol cops. Their leader was hobnobbing with Chump and making rally appearances with him. Of course that means instant corruption.
The FOP will show up and back cops who gun down folks on the street, but wouldn’t utter a peep for the Cap Cop who had to shoot Ashli Bimbo. Or make any response to the Cap Cops episode of the J6 insurrection. Of all the twisting and groveling and pretzel-knotting that we witnessed the last 5 years, the Police, Back the Blue, Sheriffs, and military types have done the least to reassure Americans of where they stand. They carry enormous power and we still have no idea where they will use it, on which side. They caused a lot of the racial and law-n-order tension that the RW tries to capitalize on…and done very little to restore faith or prove that the constitution is their lode-star. So many of them were complicit in the insurrection and the general shift towards chaos and anti-democracy but they still are The Power at nearly every scene and confrontation…every march, demonstration, rally, speech, and even elections. (Michigan Sheriff still storming around his county threatening election payback).
We worry and wonder, rightfully, about the military. But the police and sheriffs appear to be corrupt at every turn. If it isn’t the cops on the beat, it is their leadership. If it isn’t their leadership, it is their unions and lobbying arms. And powerful politicians trying to use them at every turn for muscle or PR appeal. And then our traitor citizens who howl about supporting cops and plastering everyone else for being dirtbag criminals, when they themselves are not only the bulk of dirtbag criminals but the bulk of middle-class rip-off artists, white collar grand theft and tax cheats, and insurrectionists with a starkly two-faced relationship. The cops don’t even know if they are supposed to be protecting the status quo against the traditional radical lefties…or the next minute pulling an Ole! bullfighter move of letting the insurrectionists breach the barriers and pull down the status quo.