A group of more than 100 active and retired police officers They supported the vice president’s candidacy Kamala Harris for the presidency, qualifying the former prosecutor and her running mate, the governor of Minnesota Tim Walzas “the only candidates we trust to keep our communities safe.”
“This November,” they wrote, “Americans will choose between someone who spent his career enforcing our laws and someone who has been convicted of violating them.”
This support was announced hours before the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorsed the Republican presidential nomination of Donald Trumpwho has praised and promised to forgive his supporters who attacked law enforcement during the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, announced in a press release Friday that FOP members voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for president of the United States.
“Public safety and border security will be important issues in the final months of this campaign,” said Yoes. “Our members carefully considered the candidates’ positions on the issues and there was no doubt, not a single doubt, about who they want as our president for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”
The response of other law enforcement officials was to back Harris.
In response to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorsement of Donald Trump, the former Capitol Police officer on January 6 Harry Dunnthe sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, Javier Salazar and the sheriff of Durham, North Carolina, Clarence Birkhead joined A Harris-Walz 2024 Campaign Press Call to criticize Donald Trump.
On the call, Sheriffs and police officers launched “Law Enforcement for Harris,” organizing hundreds of law enforcement officials across the country in support of Vice President Harris’ Democratic presidential nomination because they know she has spent her entire career working side by side with law enforcement to protect the public and hold wrongdoers accountable.
They also highlighted the lies Donald Trump is expected to tell in Charlotte on Friday as he accepts the FOP endorsement, about his record of defunding the police, overseeing violent crime and inspiring a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on January 6.
The police officers who defended the Capitol from the Trump mob were furious about the police union’s support for Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts in May and faces dozens more felony charges in other cases.
Sheriff Javier Salazar On the call with Harris and Walz’s campaign, she noted that Trump: “He’s standing next to us in our uniforms, as I mentioned at the Democratic National Convention, and he’s smiling and giving everyone red hats, and he’s moving on with his life. It’s a very transactional relationship that he has with law enforcement. He pretends to support law enforcement until we get in his way, until we get in his way from him doing exactly what he wants to do. He demonstrated that on January 6th.”
For its part, Harry Dunn, a former Capitol Police officer who was also present during the January 6 assault on Congress, said: “Donald Trump makes up lies, because the truth is he doesn’t care that he put my life and the lives of my fellow Capitol Police officers in danger on January 6th. He doesn’t care that five officers died for encouraging a mob of violent insurrectionists to march on the Capitol. And now he’s running to pardon those same insurrectionists.”
“Vice President Harris knows how to deliver for her law enforcement officers because she was one of them,” said Sheriff Clarence Burkhead and noted that “across the country, law enforcement officers are lining up to support Vice President Harris and Governor Walz. In fact, I am proud to join over 100 law enforcement officers across the country who have signed a letter today to endorse Vice President Harris for President.”
Burkhead added that Harris was the only candidate on the ballot “who has spent his entire career fighting for people and supporting local law enforcement like me.”
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