It is easy to feel discouraged in the face of the progressive legislators’ drama committee related to the Capitol violation on January 6 and the new indoor masks announced by the Biden administration on Thursday. But it is important to realize that over-expansion is a response to the problems faced by the Biden administration and Hill progressives: they have already lost on some very serious fronts.
The National Police Association is a non-profit organization that aims to defend law enforcement officials when the police campaign is deprived of funds. “Dog and Pony Show” He also said that the committee’s drama is replacing the story of the black life issue nationwide/of the officials injured in the Antifa riots in the country last summer.
“In the riots of 2020, we can’t just say that George Floyd’s whole thing is bad, that’s what the police have to deal with, and then watch these four crying men talk about their experiences, disregarding them as Thousands of police officers ignore their feelings and feelings. Their experiences and injuries,” she said.
Brantner Smith also criticized the “removal of funding for the police” campaign to dehumanize law enforcement officials. She believes that the policy alleged to save black lives is the opposite.
“It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “I have some policemen who would rather go back to Iraq than continue to work on the streets because of the large amount of blood and corpses and everything that the people they deal with cannot see.”
“It’s paying the price,” she said. “Before George Floyd, we had a police mental health crisis in this country, and now the police suicide rate has risen to a crisis level.”
The police union, although generally speaking More support Of officials testified at the committee hearing and were also on the record a month ago Criticizing the Congressional Police Leadership Because of their failure on January 6.
After the Senate Joint Committee issued a report on the riots in support of Trump on January 6, the chairman of the Congressional Police Union called on acting chief Yugananda Pittman to step down on Wednesday.
Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the Labor Committee of the U.S. Congressional Police, said that the report showed that Pittman and other senior leaders failed to prepare their police officers adequately and intelligence to respond to violations, and failed to communicate with their officers at the time of the attack. communicate. Is happening.
“The time has come for the senior leaders who have disappointed us to stand aside. It is not enough to treat others as scapegoats,” Papatanasio said in a statement.
“Those who are most responsible, including Pittman, the acting chief of intelligence before the rebellion, need to give way for the benefit of the department,” he said. “As the Senate report found, our leadership has let us down, and we paid a terrible price.”
Progressive people have recently felt resistance from their reliable union friends in history on other important issues, especially the Biden government and dark blue cities such as New York And California and other states.
Public officials union exist New York Oppose the newly announced regulations requiring workers to be vaccinated Coronavirus disease Or receive regular virus testing.
New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that public officials in New York City need to be fully vaccinated by mid-September because they need to be tested for coronavirus every week. Officials pointed out that this is not mandatory because employees have the right to choose, but some employees and unions said that the measure was too excessive and undermined the rights of workers.
FDNY EMS Local 2507 Chairman Oren Barzilay lashed out at the mayor’s decision after the news, saying that the actions of his union-representing the city’s 4,300 EMS workers-surprised them. “Cities and mayors cannot simply ignore the civil liberties of the labor force,” he told Associated Press.
Harry Nespoli, chairman of the Sanitation Workers Union, said: “The union is really, really annoyed, and the mayor has imposed this on everyone.” New York Times.
California Governor Gavin Newson faces a recall, Announced on Monday All workers need to be vaccinated or tested for COVID every week, which has caused severe accusations from SEIU, one of the largest unions in the United States.
Richard L. Brown, chairman of the Service Employees International Union Branch, representing 43% of California’s approximately 238,000 state employees, said in a video posted online that he was shocked by Mr. Newsom’s statement and the state’s new policy Violated the privacy and health care rights of its members.
All in all, as Biden and progressive lawmakers pick out crises, re-enact mandates, and push for mandatory vaccination, they are stimulus groups that tend to vote for the Democratic Party in the past. This may indicate that over-expansion may have gone too far, and if this country can maintain collective sanity for a long time, this should be an interesting midterm election.
