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To the editor:
As a former New York City correction officer and decorated combat veteran, my heart sank into my stomach when I read that the Federal Order of Police endorsed Donald Trump for president.
This news disoriented me in a variety of ways, because as a war veteran who watched many of my fellow comrades lose their limbs and lives in Iraq, I took umbrage when Donald Trump called all wounded and deceased soldiers suckers and losers and recently stated that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was better than our Medal of Honor because, he said, recipients of the latter are “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.”
As a New York City resident who is also a minority, I have always been disgusted about how Trump has attempted to divide us by scapegoating multiple minority classes.
Even long before he considered taking any political office, he still has not yet apologized for how he brutally attacked and verbally crucified the five young African Americans known as the Central Park 5, by publicly demanding that they receive the death penalty long before they were even tried.
My question, as someone who once considered joining the FOP is why would this fraternity that is made up of thousands and thousands of our nation's law enforcement servants, endorse this convicted felon who has brought our nation severely divided and broken to its knees with racial animosity and uncontrolled hate?
My only late wish is that FOP President Patrick Yoes try to reach out to some of his dues-paying members and ask them how they would feel about their fraternal leaders endorsing a man who appears to respect and admire Adolf Hitler.
Celestino P. Monclova III
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namrogm
Mr. Monelova, as a retired NYPD and a Vietnam veteran, I couldn’t agree with you more. How could members of law enforcement and military veterans support a traitor, a coward, and a sub-human who openly tells “gold star” parents like General Kelly that military heroes are suckers and losers? What is wrong with police organizations that support a wanna-be Hitlerian dictator? We have many stupid misogynists and selfish pigs in our ranks. It’s sickening.
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krell1349
Thank you for your service. I'll add that how can anyone support Trump? If elected it will be 4 years of chaos, lies, insanity and retribution. How dare he denigrate soldiers since he got out of serving due to bone spurs? Don't vote for him, Harris is clearly the better choice.
Wednesday, October 30 Report this