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If you want to prevent severe illness and death, you stop censoring the proven early treatments and therapies!
Police are not special or above the law. They choose a career path to protect and serve. It's ok to reevaluate your job at any time.
So stupid! A deadly pandemic being used as a political football!!
Stand strong. Mandates are wrong. iampatrickhenry
So they kill 1,000 people a year, aren't legally obligated to help people, they don't actually prevent or solve crimes, and now they're spreading disease and adding to their already substantial annual death toll? Abolish the police. They objectively do more harm than good.
Louder for folks in the back: if police officers don’t want to take the Covid vaccine, they never should have been in the “safety” business in the first place.
Clearly we need provide them more education of science.
But people are dying despite being fully vaccinated …..is that REALLY how we slow the spread Should we go back to masks? Increased cleaning procedures
alaskarebel Now's the chance to get rid of some crooked cops
Tells you how police aren't about keeping us safe. Its about who can I bully today.
There’s no nice way to say it, but a lot of police are really quite stupid.
How do u uphold the law & defy experts? WTF?
They obviously ignore the fact that Covid has killed more officers than any other source last year
The police are defunding themselves.
It’s mind boggling that these cops get their kids vaccinated before they go to school….but won’t get themselves vaccinated before they go to work.
It's all about asserting their power & showing no one can tell them what to. I mean what happens next if they get forced to get vaxed, getting held accountable for shooting unarmed citizens? That can't be allowed to happen at all costs!
Get vaccinated for Pete sake. Your actions are foolish and only hurt yourself. You are being lead by the Pie Piper down the wrong path.
They should not be police if they are against long established legal precedent, and are not willing to serve and PROTECT the public. Or even protect themselves. They willingly wear kevlar, but COVID killed way more police than bullets last year
Smoke and mirrors 🪞
That is why the biggest cause of death among police is Covid. Proven!
SHAME
Fire every single cop who refuses to get vaccinated.
How about banning the police from pulling anyone over for any reason.
So, they will beat and kill innocent black people but not take a vaccine……sounds like some baby shit to me
I'd replace em all with skynet & drones.
Let this be the natural selection to get rid of officers that are not serving the people and replace them with better trained officers and maybe we will see a reduction in police brutality.
I'm a fan of police unions, just not police unions. They protect bad cops, oppose things that are good for the community that require better conduct from police, and act like a gang.
ACAB
Stop resisting.
Darwin approves.
I don't get it They put their lives on the line daily, supposedly for their communities. Getting a free, extremely effective, death-preventing vaccine for themselves and the people around them fits that purpose. This is SO stupid.
Police and medical personnel who refuse to get vaccinated are doing so to get out of their professions.
“Who say”
Police have always thought themselves above the law. And they were never meant to protect and serve anything other than the state and its assets.
Further proof we can’t trust many cops to do the right thing.
With all the money they aren’t having to pay out in salaries for those who won’t comply, it can be re distributed to communities for what they really need: housing, mental health support or other social programs.
Meanwhile, other unions fight to protect those they represent 🤦♂️
The police obstructing things that are good for the community? Why I never!
Every police officers is probably vaccinated against measles,mumps,rubella,tetanus, whooping cough,smallpox,polio,hepatitus,chicken pox, flu,pneumonia etc. Covid has killed 5x as many police as guns. If they're that afraid, they shouldn't be police.
Disband the Unions. Fire those who don’t get vaccinated
When Blue Lives don't even matter to the Blue.
Don’t understand this position at all. Unions should be encouraging our members to protect themselves, their families, their communities. Get the vaccination. Thankful that the majority support the country and got the vaccination.
Who knew there were so many bad apples?
Why do police need unions? The whole point of a union is to give the laborers bargaining power to stand up to the capital owners of their business. Cops, on the other hand, basically exist to serve the interests of capital
COVID virus is the number one killer of law enforcement officers this year ☹️
So solve two problems at one time
This in the face of Covid being the most significant cause of death among their membership.
The official stance of police is that they do not not value the lives of they they were assigned to protect. From qualified immunity to COVID mandates, the police continue to reiterate this.
Abolish
One would think encountering an unknown threat to their own health they would embrace another arsenal to combat it. Are Unions against weekly testing too?
It would be nice if we could recruit cops who care about people more than power.
If you're a law enforcement official who refuses the COVID vaccine, shame on you.
The vaccine mandates are culling the herd of the undesirable police we don't want in the ranks anyway. I hope the mandates stay.
I guess it’s FAKE NEWS that BLUE LIVES MATTER……good work police union…..RED HAT IDOITS
Sounds like a lot of police officers and their unions aren’t interested in protecting and serving.
Police culture has changed. They don't view themselves as serving a community. We are supposed to bend to their culture and hero worship every move they make instead of they are protecting us.
They’re foolish. Their politics have affected their ability to make smart decisions. Maybe it’s time they left.
As health officials continue to put more and more stringent restrictions on people the second they’re questioned their answer is we’re just trying to save lives. That’s the problem with the government as they take all your rights they’re just trying to protect you. Be careful.
The largest gang in America.
What? They don’t like following the rules?
Buh-Bye. They were not there to 'protect' and serve.
Being vaccinated is protecting and serving the community. If you can’t figure that out, you gotta go.
Not exactly reassuring. How did we get here? Do these yahoos not appreciate the work their smallpox vaccines have done? Polio? Etc....?
The resistance is not about vaccines or mandates. It's about resistance to policies that are led by TheDemocrats. Unions are concerned abt staffing shortages? Then unions like Chicago_Police would encourage Covid vaccines. It's politics. Let the right-wing fools leave.
Oh I’m sure those health officials have good intentions. Like now mandating a flu vax in Colorado. Pretty soon they’ll be mandatory peloton rides in the morning for the obese.
Let them die.
They can quit. People don’t need those knucklehead’s “protection” who lacks the basic understanding of public safety.
mandatory vacinations for police officers.
Exposing themselves as insurrectionist. It's all connected. Rallies, masks, vaccines, recounts, police brutality. Voter suppression, no mandates, and school boards and curriculum. They hate America. Radicalized by Fox.
Way to “protect and serve.”
The Blue doesn’t really back the rest of us.
Sad to see Police Unions protecting White Supremacists, Criminals and Conspiracy Pushers . . .
This would be a great opportunity to get rid of all these racist right wing cops in one fell swoop but I know we will not have the guts to do it in this country.
They work in Public Safety. If you aren’t on board with that, maybe it’s the wrong profession for you. Same with paramedics in my mind.
They don’t care about American lives or public health and safety. People are surprised 🤷
How many of them resisting have a history of excessive force?
They take an oath to serve and PROTECT. If they don’t want to protect the people they are sworn to serve they should resign.
Maybe they think they’re “qualified immune” from covid
Vaccine disinformation runs rampant in LE agencies, unfortunately. It's Fox News and right wing podcast overload. It's so unfortunate and has led to so many needless deaths.
Serve and protect includes getting vaccinated.
Personal choice matters. Get vaccinated if you are vulnerable. Leave people alone who choose not to.
The police union should be smart and tell their members to get vaccinated and they probably get more respect from the regular us citizen that knows that this union is not the most honest in dealings!
Are you being careful about what are actually unions versus the social clubs…? Many of the unions are all for it it’s the politicize social clubs you should be dealing with looking into
Shocker! Police Unions don't give af about public safety? Who knew? I mean, we saw the GLFOP last summer, right?
It's funny that the same ppl who were upset at parents for not wanting vaccinate their children for fear of the rise in autism in children directly linked to vaccines are now afraid to get vaccinated
I think a mask mandate for police is more important the vaccines. Mask mandates protect from spreading the virus.
Cops will never pass up an opportunity to indulge their darkest self-serving desires. If they get to kill people in the process, that's just gravy.
I mean, is anyone really shocked about this? Another argument for ACAB
You can lead a dumb ass to a vaccination but you can’t make him take it. Let them get sick… I’ve had it 🤷🏼♀️I’m tired of masking my life to accommodate others
See? Perfect example:. We, the people they are supposed to Serve say We want Change, We want you to be healthy, and help Protect Us! These old boys club law enforcement are antiquated and like their macho mobiles, need to be replaced. They have forgotten their place in society.
They're supposed to personify the Rule of Law & yet act this way? Hypocrisy
Idiots 🙄
Shows who they really are. They do not care for public safety but for power.!
Stop resisting!
Most of the good cops and cops hanging for their pension will stay. What's the problem?
Dear Police, Do not come near me unless you’re vaccinated.
“We want to make sure police have access to this life saving vaccine.” and “you must take the vaccine to keep your job.” are two entirely different things.
The really tragic thing is Covid is the major cause of death for police. These anti vax cops are actually promoting the deaths of their fellow police.
I do not get it! Why would anyone want a first responder or public servant that isn't inoculated to aide a person who is vulnerable?!?
What Drama Queens! We’ve had vaccine mandates for decades. Been to school? You’ve complied multiple times. Summer camp, military service, international travel? Same. What pathetic posturing.
They are being selfish and don’t deserve to wear the uniform…obviously they don’t understand the “protect and serve” part of their job.
Perhaps eliminating gun, badge with qualified immunity for these 'Freedom' lovers is best after all. Thanks for stepping up folks.
The anti vax police and their unions are demonstrating that do not serve and protect the public. These are the 'bad apples' we keep hearing about.
Here’s the valid reason
Because those who swear to “protect the public” don’t really mean it.
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