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Ford Motor Company Employees Call for End of Police Car Production
Breitbart ^ | 11 Jul 2020 | Penny Starr

Posted on 07/11/2020 8:54:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Ford Motor Company’s website features the automaker’s long relationship with law enforcement that dates back seven decades and includes its tagline for the vehicles it has designed for the men and women in blue — “police-tested, street proven.”

But now the wave of social unrest and virtue signaling following the death of George Floyd while in police custody is taking over the corporate world, including at Ford, where workers are urging leadership to stop manufacturing cop cars.

This despite the fact that Ford expresses pride about its connection to law enforcement, according to its website:

Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. Over the following decades, we’ve worked alongside law enforcement agencies with a purpose-built philosophy that continues today. Every vehicle is built with what we call the Ford Police DNA – safety, durability, performance, purpose built and upfit friendly.

Like the officers who drive them, Ford police vehicles are specialized to meet the needs of the communities they serve – providing law-enforcement agencies of all stripes with the ideal tools to get the job done.

But now anti-police rhetoric is spilling over into action taken against not just police officers who have committed crimes but all men and women in uniform — 800,000 in the United States, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

“Since the first recorded police death in 1786, there have been more than 22,000 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty,” the memorial website states.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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The Communist Revolution has arrived.
1 posted on 07/11/2020 8:54:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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The Communist Revolution has arrived.

bring it


2 posted on 07/11/2020 8:55:57 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve been a Ford guy for a long time.

I’ll never buy their products again.


3 posted on 07/11/2020 8:56:32 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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As many as 100 Ford employees have raised the question in letters

According to Statistica, Ford Motor Company has 190,000 employees as of 2019. One-hundred is less than a drop in the bucket. Breitbart should not be making this out to be a big deal, even if it gets clicks.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/297324/number-of-ford-employees/
4 posted on 07/11/2020 8:57:34 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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I’ll never buy their products again.

you're very confused


5 posted on 07/11/2020 8:59:04 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: NFHale

We switched to GMC truck, this year, after many years with Ford trucks.


6 posted on 07/11/2020 9:00:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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This is appalling. My father worked for Ford for 30 years and if you even so much as drove a non-Ford car onto the lot you'd get a severe reprimand, if not worse.

Now we have disgruntled employees telling management how to run their business, and getting away with it.

Shame on Ford for caving to these malcontents.

7 posted on 07/11/2020 9:02:23 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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Could it be union boots telling the dues payers to say this?


8 posted on 07/11/2020 9:04:20 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FYI

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3863393/posts


9 posted on 07/11/2020 9:04:22 PM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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If they cave in to the BLM assholes, why would you support them?


10 posted on 07/11/2020 9:05:34 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Oh, FFS. This has become a descent beyond madness.


11 posted on 07/11/2020 9:05:52 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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Thanks.

Ford CEO Jim Hackett statement/reply to these Karens...

By taking away our Police Interceptors, we would be doing harm to their safety and making it harder for them to do their job. Again, this is why, given our insights, new capabilities and leadership, I believe these unfortunate circumstances present Ford with an even greater opportunity to not only innovate new solutions but also leverage our unique position to support the dialogue and reform needed to create safer communities for all. I do appreciate people speaking their mind to me on this issue – it helped me generate this note to explain why we are continuing our commitment to police forces all over the world in our trusted products. Thank you for caring so deeply about the Company and our people, and for all you do for Ford.””


12 posted on 07/11/2020 9:06:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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As many as 100 Ford employees have raised the question in letters to senior executives, as well as during a corporate town hall held online, several company insiders said, confirming a report that first appeared in the Detroit Free Press.

A hundred employees? Organized. By unions and commies and FORD's going to give up making police cars? LOL - what a lame company.

13 posted on 07/11/2020 9:06:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Leo Terrell - Michael Shellenberger - Stephen Hsu.."TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH" - (jimred)
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That’s what I am thinking


14 posted on 07/11/2020 9:07:05 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: truthkeeper


Now we have disgruntled employees telling management how to run their business, and getting away with it.

Shame on Ford for caving to these malcontents.


I missed that.

proove it


15 posted on 07/11/2020 9:08:18 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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The Ford execs have reportedly told the malcontent soon-to-be-ex-employees:

F ord you!

16 posted on 07/11/2020 9:09:46 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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If they cave in to the BLM assholes, why would you support them?

prove they did


17 posted on 07/11/2020 9:10:11 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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Prove they won’t.


18 posted on 07/11/2020 9:11:35 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I love my 2003 4WD F-150.

Been a great vehicle, The only repairs have been stuff that was my fault or that of other drivers.

But I can’t imagine ever again buying anything made by people this stupid.


19 posted on 07/11/2020 9:11:47 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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If these cancel workers are on the police car line, their work cannot be trusted. It would be risky to leave them employed.


20 posted on 07/11/2020 9:12:22 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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