“Tired Of Being A Punching Bag”: Florida Police Union Unanimously Endorses Trump In Emergency Vote

[PeteS in CA]

“Tired Of Being A Punching Bag”: Florida Police Union Unanimously Endorses Trump In Emergency Vote

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/07/31/tired-punching-bag-florida-police-union-unanimously-endorses-trump-emergency-vote/

“You have a lot of power to tilt an election,” Brian Kilmeade told John Kazanjian on Fox & Friends this morning. The Florida Police Benevolent Association certainly hopes so, and one has to assume other police unions and support organizations do too. Kazanjian will deliver an endorsement letter to Donald Trump later today from the FPBA, one that got a unanimous vote as police officers begin to push back against Democrats demanding “defunding.”

The FPBA has already withdrawn an endorsement of a local Democrat, Kazanjian noted as well, over the issue of defunding:

Kazanjian explained that the decision to endorse Trump started with his move last week to call for an “emergency meeting via conference phone” with all of the chapter and charter presidents and board of directors.

“I spelled it out on what’s going on not just in Florida but across this country that, ‘Hey, you know what, we’re getting beat up. We’re getting used like a punching bag and we’re tired of it and President Donald Trump has been there for us. He supported us.’”

Kazanjian comments came after a Florida county-level union rescinded its endorsement of a Democratic candidate for the state legislature, in the wake of public statements in which he called for police to be demilitarized and questioned the need for patrol officers to drive unmarked cars, Fox News has learned.

Police unions probably realize that many/most Dems using them as bogeymen understood this would happen. Meaning Dem "leaders" see police officers as expendable pawns.