{"id":4600,"date":"2021-08-05T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2021-08-05T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:26:10","slug":"why-isnt-the-fop-outraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/08\/05\/why-isnt-the-fop-outraged\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn&#8217;t the FOP Outraged?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/08\/blue-wall-silence\/619612\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic, Adam Serwer <\/a>writes about the Fraternal Order of Police and their reaction to the January 5th insurrection. <br><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The Capitol Rioters Attacked Police. Why Isn&#8217;t the FOP Outraged?<\/p><p>Police unions aren\u2019t usually bashful about defending officers, but they\u2019ve been conspicuously subdued in discussing the January 6 attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>&#8230;\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What you won\u2019t find on the national FOP Twitter feed, however, are condemnations of the Capitol rioters who attacked police officers on January 6 deploying this sort of unrestrained bombast. You won\u2019t find any clips of FOP members on Fox News confronting its prime-time hosts for mocking the testimony of police officers who faced the mob that day. You won\u2019t even find the FOP highlighting the compelling testimony of those officers, whose recollections paint a vivid picture of the rioters and their motives. You will find only the FOP\u2019s careful statement seeking to clear up \u201cconfusion\u201d about its position, a deeply unusual situation for the FOP to be in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Atlantic, Adam Serwer writes about the Fraternal Order of Police and their reaction to the January 5th insurrection. The Capitol Rioters Attacked Police. Why Isn&#8217;t the FOP Outraged? Police unions aren\u2019t usually bashful about defending officers, but they\u2019ve been conspicuously subdued in discussing the January 6 attacks. &#8230; What you won\u2019t find &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/08\/05\/why-isnt-the-fop-outraged\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,19],"tags":[3530,3525,3528,3532,3526,567,706,3521,1957,3523,3522,3527,3520,3531,3529,3524],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4600","6":"format-standard","7":"category-politics","8":"category-racism","9":"category-trump","10":"post_tag-activist-judges","11":"post_tag-black-lives-matter","12":"post_tag-black-rights-activists","13":"post_tag-capitol-rioters","14":"post_tag-colin-kaepernick","15":"post_tag-donald-trump","16":"post_tag-fox-news","17":"post_tag-january-6-attacks","18":"post_tag-law-enforcement","19":"post_tag-looting","20":"post_tag-national-fraternal-order-of-police","21":"post_tag-newsmax","22":"post_tag-police-union","23":"post_tag-progressive-policies","24":"post_tag-rogue-prosecutors","25":"post_tag-trespassing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}