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Aurora Police Officer: 'I Am Leaving Colorado For ... Less Communism'
Author: Brian Maass
May 20, 2021 at 11:16 am
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) An Aurora police officer, Daniel Bertelson, sent a department-wide email this month as he announced his retirement, offering some barbs and harsh assessments of the current climate for law enforcement.
I am leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism, wrote Bertelson, who spent 16 years with the Aurora Police Department.
Try to ignore the politicians and media, he wrote to his colleagues. They know nothing of this profession or honor; theyre self-serving con artists, well-dressed pimps and prostitutes at best."
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As the war against police rages on in an environment where you can literally do no right,
I pray for the safety, success and happiness of each of you.
Never forget, wrote Bertelson, you are all capable of incredible things in and out of law enforcement, never lose faith in yourself.
]https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/05/20/daniel-bertelson-aurora-police-department-officer-retirement-law-enforcement-communism/
hlthe2b
(102,134 posts)if this is the reaction to all the horrific incidence lately (including in CO)
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)the finest civil rights violators around. They were responsible for the death of Elijah McClain among many other things.
I'm sure he'll fit right in in MAGA Florida.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)superpatriotman
(6,246 posts)How ironic.
Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)underpants
(182,626 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)I'm guessing Florida. He certainly isn't going to California. Maybe Arizona?
Sneederbunk
(14,278 posts)RegularJam
(914 posts)Dumb as a rock.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Lol.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)Xavier Breath
(3,595 posts)it will be in the guise of "Florida Man."
sop
(10,104 posts)street justice with little oversight, summarily arresting, convicting and executing those they believe to be criminals.
I see Bertelson's "leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism." That probably means he's coming to Florida.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Tripper11
(4,338 posts)jcgoldie
(11,613 posts)spanone
(135,795 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,774 posts)Johonny
(20,818 posts)They'll hate every minute of it, but they'll take it.
-misanthroptimist
(802 posts)And that definition is not "whatever I don't like or agree with is communism."
For the record: Haven't seen a helluva lot of honor among the police the past few decades. Here and there, but vastly outweighed by police bullying, coverups, perjury, assaults, and even murders. So, Officer Dan, your definition of honor is probably no more accurate than your definition of communism.
Midnight Writer
(21,717 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,973 posts)Shouldn't he at least understand the basic facts about the US's system of laws?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This isn't an airport; there is no need to announce your departure.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)For all the grumbling these fascist yokels make about snowflakes, they always feel the need to make a big crybaby scene in which they must whine to high heaven about how oppressed they are by (insert communism, cancel culture, political correctness, the left). Just freaking go, dude. No one cares.
tanyev
(42,520 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Because that would be funny!
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)he started getting afraid it was going to bite him in the ass.
a kennedy
(29,618 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,167 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Bristlecone
(10,117 posts)At All.
BTW - Airing ones grievances on the way out the door via email is classless and petty. He knows nothing of honor and Id bet little of duty.
Iggo
(47,535 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Actually, I don't really care one way or the other.
Irish_Dem
(46,528 posts)These people have no idea what they are talking about.