Republicans hate Unions because they protect the bad apples. Except when police do it.

[pwb]

A criminal killed those two officers not because of what the Mayor said, or any politician, but because of the police departments brutality and killing unarmed citizens all over the country. Stop acting like our country is a war zone.
Keep protecting these bad cops and it will only get worse. Most of you are good loyal hard working servants of the people. You are giving yourselves a bad name. You need to clean house and when a fellow cop does something wrong, call them on it, don't back them up and act like it is acceptable just because they are a cop. Call out the brutality and the citizens will like you a lot more. Now we feel like you have turned your back on us too. You are on the shit list with a lot of citizens now, and only you can fix it. Clean up your act. Start the healing if you want respect from us.

[RKP5637]

1. Well said! Not all cops are bad, but by protecting the bad ones, they make all

cops look bad. And then, they think they can demand respect. They need to hold a mirror up to themselves and weed out the bad cops.

[Depaysement]

2. Republicans hate unions because . . .

. . . workers get paid more when they bargain collectively. Republican constituencies hate that more than anything else.

[Orsino]

3. I hadn't thought of it this way before, but...

...perhaps police think they can help preserve their union by making it a tool of the powerful.

It won't work.

[ColesCountyDem]

4. A criminal killed those two officers because he was a vicious, violent criminal.

Her didn't kill them "...because of the police departments brutality and killing unarmed citizens all over the country.....".