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As police unions endorse Trump, some worry officers displaying bias could be intimidating at the polls, affect voting (BARF ALERT)
Washington Post ^ | 10/31/2020 | Abigail Hauslohner

Posted on 11/01/2020 9:14:27 AM PST by MAGA2017

A New York City police officer used his squad car loudspeaker to chant “Trump 2020” at passersby in Brooklyn. A uniformed police officer walked into an early voting station in Miami wearing a “TRUMP 2020” face mask. And the country’s biggest police labor union used a photo of a Philadelphia police officer holding a toddler to peddle the false narrative that police had rescued him from “complete lawlessness” amid the city’s protests while urging people to vote for President Trump to promote “law and order.”

The series of incidents in the final days of the presidential election have led some Democratic voters, activists and organizations that monitor extremist groups to raise concerns about the potential for political bias among the police officers and sheriff’s deputies tasked with safeguarding the 2020 vote.

Several vocal police unions have endorsed President Trump, there have been several reports of uniformed police officers expressing explicit preference for the president in public, and there have been complaints of coziness or bias shown by some officers toward armed right-wing groups and self-described militias. The incidents have added to an already heightened climate of tension across the country.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antifa; backtheblue; biden; fakenews; msdnc; mslsd; notnews; police; tds; trump; washingtoncompost
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1 posted on 11/01/2020 9:14:27 AM PST by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

Snowflakes melt quickly sometimes too.....


2 posted on 11/01/2020 9:15:49 AM PST by cranked
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To: MAGA2017

The WaPo winds its panties even tighter.


3 posted on 11/01/2020 9:17:11 AM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: MAGA2017

The mass media is looking for excuses for the Biden collapse at the polls on Tuesday.

It is getting kinda obvious...


4 posted on 11/01/2020 9:17:13 AM PST by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman. Pronounced: Bye Done.)
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To: MAGA2017

Didn’t seem to be a problem when police unions endorsed Democrats... but what do I know.


5 posted on 11/01/2020 9:17:21 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: MAGA2017

Projection by the browmshirts


6 posted on 11/01/2020 9:17:23 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: MAGA2017

Sometimes I wish that it gets ugly enough for the President to declare Martial Law just so he can round up all the recalcitrant presstitutes and their editors like Lincoln did, then summarily execute them as enemy combatants.


7 posted on 11/01/2020 9:18:55 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: MAGA2017

Yes, get over it Compost.


8 posted on 11/01/2020 9:19:51 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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Odd. No one said a thing when the Black Panthers intimidated people in Philly.


9 posted on 11/01/2020 9:19:57 AM PST by econjack
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Intimidating? Moi?


10 posted on 11/01/2020 9:20:55 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: MAGA2017

They have issues with police wearing MAGA hats while the leftist agenda is being taught to school kids??
I would say this endorsing of Trump by police is NOTHING compared to the left brainwashing school children!


11 posted on 11/01/2020 9:20:56 AM PST by doc maverick
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Unlike those Black Panthers?


12 posted on 11/01/2020 9:21:21 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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So the Left has the fender-bender story and this outlaw-LEOs story... and almost forgot, should the Left decide to report it, the Biden laptop disaster.


13 posted on 11/01/2020 9:21:31 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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were they worried when they were backing the RATS??? /s
14 posted on 11/01/2020 9:23:05 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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How often did the Washington Post show concern for police union intimidation in the many years they regularly endorsed the Democrat ticket?

And how often do they show concern for people being intimidate by the Leftist rage mobs?

15 posted on 11/01/2020 9:24:24 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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That’s funny, never heard that line of reason when the Fire/Police Unions constantly supported Dems?


16 posted on 11/01/2020 9:24:49 AM PST by Professional
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You know, I never heard much complaining about poll intimidation by REPUBLICANS until this election. That includes Trump ‘16.


17 posted on 11/01/2020 9:27:53 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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But Biden is up by a gazillion points. Why is the WaPo nervous?


18 posted on 11/01/2020 9:28:25 AM PST by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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No concern about the Biden-endorsing postal workers union distributing, collecting and transporting mail-in ballots though.


19 posted on 11/01/2020 9:32:11 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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YEARS of police and teachers union support for Dems has been no problem


20 posted on 11/01/2020 9:32:39 AM PST by amadeus
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