'We Are Not Going to Take This Crap Anymore': LAPD Scorns Nationwide Effort to Bring Them Down
Ellie Bufkin
Posted: Jul 09, 2020 1:05 PM
The nation seems to have turned on the law enforcement officers of this country overnight as protests and demonstrations morphed into riots and a demand to end police departments. As leaders of major American cities, members of Congress and entire city councils have called to either abolish police or gut their budgets, the men and women in blue have bravely continued to do their best to keep people safe.
Protester and rioters, who have gathered en masse in cities and towns across the nation for more than a month, attack officers, light their equipment on fire, and even shoot at the police with near impunity as mayors and governors applaud.
"Don't be afraid of democracy," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) famously said to President Trump at the beginning of a weeks long occupation in the center of her city. Several people were shot and two teens were killed in that zone after protesters blocked the police from entering while calling them "pigs" and insisting they be eradicated.
Now, after weeks of being spit on, chided, and degraded by elected officials, one police department is fighting back.
The Los Angeles Police Department, a force of nearly 10,000 officers as of 2018, has been participating in planned walk outs and call outs that have been dubbed as the "Blue Flu." Though the LAPD has a checkered past full of budget problems, decades of corruption, and political upheaval, never before have they faced such a tremendous opponent forged by the very people they vowed to protect and the leaders they voted for to support them. After the Los Angeles City Council voted to suck $150 million from their budget, amid overtime freezes and a public cry for them to be abolished, an unsigned letter began circulating throughout the rank and file.
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