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Ford Employees Demand They Stop Making Police Cars
Law Officer ^ | 07/08/2020 | Law Officer

Posted on 07/09/2020 6:41:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Ford Motor Company Employees have asked the company’s leadership to stop making and selling police vehicles.

According to Verge, the internal discussion came as the demands for racial justice raged across the country.

In response, Ford CEO Jim Hackett has told employees in a letter that he doesn’t think it’s “controversial that the Ford Police Interceptor helps officers do their job” and that Ford will continue the business.

Ford has the market when it comes to making police cars, accounting for two-thirds of the cop cars on the street.

Despite Ford’s success in the police car market, employees, including black workers who are part of Ford’s African Ancestry Network (FAAN) employee resource group have circulated a letter asking the company to “cease development, production, and sale of all custom police vehicles and products.”

This is one reason why employees inside Ford are now arguing that the company should sever its relationship with police. “We cannot claim to support the fight against systemic racism while supplying and supporting the very systems that perpetrate violence against Black Americans,” the group wrote, according to Jalopnik.

They continued:

Throughout our history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression. We know that while many join, support, or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic — a history and system perpetuated by Ford for over 70 years — ever since Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. As an undeniable part of that history and system, we are long overdue to “think and act differently” on our role in racism.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; copcars; drugculture; ford; legalization; normalization; paranoia; police; policecars; sabotage
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ford’s fault. They fed the beast


61 posted on 07/09/2020 7:11:30 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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To: headstamp 2

yep. I see it at work also.


62 posted on 07/09/2020 7:13:28 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ladyjane

Same here. Especially about caddys.


63 posted on 07/09/2020 7:13:55 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

THAT’S funny :)!


64 posted on 07/09/2020 7:16:53 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bookmark


65 posted on 07/09/2020 7:17:11 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Biting the hand that feeds you. Crap for brains comes to mind. (I had to check whether this was a Babylon Bee creation).


66 posted on 07/09/2020 7:18:07 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I am in the market for a new pickup truck. Have driven Fords for years. Will now be looking at Chevrolet or GMC.


67 posted on 07/09/2020 7:18:49 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Responsibility2nd; Daffynition
How about a Dodge?

Bluesmobiles Matter.


68 posted on 07/09/2020 7:18:55 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Salamander

NH State Police use Dodge Chargers.

No outrunning them.


69 posted on 07/09/2020 7:19:03 AM PDT by Westbrook
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To: Responsibility2nd

Move the protesters to a line of work that pays less and offer extra per hour to anyone who will work on the police cars...


70 posted on 07/09/2020 7:19:21 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Dubai Police specialize in exotic police cars


71 posted on 07/09/2020 7:21:41 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Responsibility2nd

Don’t like it, take a stand and quit your freaking job and give up that nice union wage.


72 posted on 07/09/2020 7:22:37 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: hanamizu

“””Is there a Ford’s European Ancestry Network (FEAN)? Would such a thing be tolerated?””””””””

HONKIES UNION GROUP....HUG.


73 posted on 07/09/2020 7:24:30 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Employees such as these do not understand how businesses make money and generate the revenue to pay them and pay for their fringe benefits.

Employees such as these are the reason I try never to buy things from a company that has employees like these.

74 posted on 07/09/2020 7:27:13 AM PDT by pt17
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To: Responsibility2nd

If Ford desires to keep me, and many fellow Americans, as customers they better not start down this road. I’ll be more than happy to take my business elsewhere.


75 posted on 07/09/2020 7:34:20 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Throughout our history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression. We know that while many join, support, or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic”

“systemic” is a blatant lie right out of the BLM handbook, which thousands of black police officers, and heads of police departments across the country can attest to. All those fine black police officers and heads of police departments would not have risen to their ranks if racism among police was “systemic”.

“Systemic” is the “cause” by which the Marxist endowed BLM claims that institutions cannot be reformed, they must be torn down. Yes, if you are Marxist, the old culture must be destroyed and only on its total ashes can you build the Marxist utopia.

Everywhere you see the term “systemic” in this war, be informed it comes from the Marxists and is in use to serve their agenda. Many ignorant people are the sheeple, the fools for tools sheeple, who spout language and terms they know not the origins of, but merely repeat, as they’ve been taught, as if the terms are gospel and not subject to question or debate - they are to be accepted as a given.


76 posted on 07/09/2020 7:35:23 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I’d say fire their asses, but they are union, so that’s not gonna happen.

Time to lean into the union to get their members in line with the "detriment of the company" clause as well as a known dollar amount that union members earn building police vehicles. Also time to remind the malcontents what percentage of their employee discount is paid by earnings on police vehicles.

77 posted on 07/09/2020 7:41:29 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Crucial

How are the police going to stop BLM if they kill a little girl without transportation?

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the kid’s dead - too late for police transport - call the morgue. Stopping the terrorists is illegal and if arrested must be quickly released. If there is a problem, just make an appointment with a social worker or the like.


78 posted on 07/09/2020 8:23:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Kickass Conservative

“Check out the new Dodge Ram.”

That was #2 on the list behind the Silverado. I will certainly give it a closer look. My favorite car way back in the day was a ‘68 Dodge Dart, with a slant-six engine. That car ran FOREVER! Then, in the 1970s, Dodge started to make some real lemons (see: Aspen).


79 posted on 07/09/2020 8:24:13 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: eyeamok

Because they are cowards like almost all of corporate America. I am afraid these employees will now try to sabotage the police vehicles. Who would ever be a cop now?


80 posted on 07/09/2020 8:30:02 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka)
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