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LetMyPeopleVote

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Sun Oct 24, 2021, 07:56 PM Oct 2021

Opinion: To police officers who refuse to be vaccinated, we say: Good riddance.

Last edited Sun Oct 24, 2021, 08:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Police officers who fail to take vaccine are a menace and should be fired These are the type of asshole cops who will fit in well for an asshole like Deathsantis




And let’s be honest, privilege is something cops know a lot about. Though it would be very difficult to prove statistically, I strongly suspect that the officers quitting over vaccine mandates are much more likely than their vaccinated peers to embody everything that’s wrong with American policing.

I’ll bet they’re the ones with the strongest sense of entitlement, the loudest demands that we pay tribute to them, and the most vehement insistence that they never face accountability for misdeeds. They’re the ones hoisting those vile “thin blue line” flags, and the ones who are all in on fascistic “warrior cop” ideology......

We’re always told that police misconduct is just a matter of a few “bad apples.” Well here’s a good way to identify at least some of the ones with no concern for the well-being of the people they’re supposed to be protecting.,,,

So far, that assumption has served them well, even as it does incalculable damage to the country. But if nothing else, perhaps we’ll come out of this with fewer cops who should never have been on the job in the first place.
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Opinion: To police officers who refuse to be vaccinated, we say: Good riddance. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 OP
Ron DeSantis wants ALLLL the idiot, unvaccinated cops to come to his state LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #1
John Oliver for the absolute win on cops not wanting to comply with vaccine mandates: LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #2
Police officers who think they're "above" regulations and orders? Bye- bye. Not wanted. SharonAnn Oct 2021 #3
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #4
Vaccine mandates weeds out some of the most authoritarian and insubordinate officers, which is also LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #5
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