Aurora Police Officer: 'I Am Leaving Colorado For ... Less Communism'

[gldstwmn]

Aurora Police Officer: 'I Am Leaving Colorado For ... Less Communism'
Author: Brian Maass
May 20, 2021 at 11:16 am

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – An Aurora police officer, Daniel Bertelson, sent a department-wide email this month as he announced his retirement, offering some barbs and harsh assessments of the current climate for law enforcement.

“I am leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism,” wrote Bertelson, who spent 16 years with the Aurora Police Department.

“Try to ignore the politicians and media,” he wrote to his colleagues. “They know nothing of this profession or honor; they’re self-serving con artists, well-dressed pimps and prostitutes at best."

Snip

As the war against police rages on in an environment where you can literally do no right,
I pray for the safety, success and happiness of each of you.”

“Never forget,” wrote Bertelson, “you are all capable of incredible things in and out of law enforcement, never lose faith in yourself.”

]https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/05/20/daniel-bertelson-aurora-police-department-officer-retirement-law-enforcement-communism/

[hlthe2b]

1. Good Riddance. I hate to think what he thinks to be "acceptable" policing...

if this is the reaction to all the horrific incidence lately (including in CO)

[gldstwmn]

23. His department are some of

the finest civil rights violators around. They were responsible for the death of Elijah McClain among many other things.
I'm sure he'll fit right in in MAGA Florida.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Good riddance to another christofascist a-hole.

[superpatriotman]

3. Says the welfare queen eating and living on the public dime

How ironic.

[Demovictory9]

4. where is he going?

[underpants]

15. Nice place. The locals rarely leave.

[gldstwmn]

24. By the palm trees comment

I'm guessing Florida. He certainly isn't going to California. Maybe Arizona?

[Sneederbunk]

5. They may want to double-check his record before he gets away.

[RegularJam]

6. Transparency is their fear. The exact opposite of communism.

Dumb as a rock.

[Effete Snob]

7. As he embarks on a new life, financed by government checks

Lol.

[gldstwmn]

25. Exactly. The irony is too much.

[panader0]

8. Palm trees? must be Florida.

[Wingus Dingus]

27. I'm going to bet Texas. CO is full of Texans for some reason.

[Xavier Breath]

28. Then I guess the next time we hear from him

it will be in the guise of "Florida Man."

[sop]

9. Bertelson apparently believes cops are supposed to act like Judge Dredd, empowered to dispense

street justice with little oversight, summarily arresting, convicting and executing those they believe to be criminals.

I see Bertelson's "leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism." That probably means he's coming to Florida.

[11 Bravo]

10. I'll let Curly Bill speak for me:

[Tripper11]

11. As usual

[jcgoldie]

12. Well Bye Felicia!

[spanone]

13. Colorado is better off for it.

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Fuck him. His loss, not ours, not the folks in Aurora.

[Johonny]

16. I'm sure they will be taking that socialist pension check, though.

They'll hate every minute of it, but they'll take it.

[-misanthroptimist]

17. Communism has an actual definition, Officer Dan

And that definition is not "whatever I don't like or agree with is communism."

For the record: Haven't seen a helluva lot of honor among the police the past few decades. Here and there, but vastly outweighed by police bullying, coverups, perjury, assaults, and even murders. So, Officer Dan, your definition of honor is probably no more accurate than your definition of communism.

[Midnight Writer]

18. He hates when socialists collect money through involuntary taxes and hire folks to enforce the law.

[Johnny2X2X]

19. You know, he works for the government enforcing laws

Shouldn't he at least understand the basic facts about the US's system of laws?

[gratuitous]

20. Dear Officer Bertelson

This isn't an airport; there is no need to announce your departure.

[Downtown Hound]

22. Seriously

For all the grumbling these fascist yokels make about snowflakes, they always feel the need to make a big crybaby scene in which they must whine to high heaven about how oppressed they are by (insert communism, cancel culture, political correctness, the left). Just freaking go, dude. No one cares.

[tanyev]

29. *snort*

[Downtown Hound]

21. Feel free to let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Because that would be funny!

[Wingus Dingus]

26. I'll bet he was a real tool every day on the job, and

he started getting afraid it was going to bite him in the ass.

[a kennedy]

30. Fawk him.....and good riddance. 🤬 🤮 🤬

[TheBlackAdder]

31. He'd better not move to a Republican state because they're all Socialist Moocher States.

[Progressive Jones]

32. Just another drama queen. nt

[Bristlecone]

33. Go F yourself on the way out the door. You will not be missed

At All.

BTW - Airing one’s grievances on the way out the door via email is classless and petty. He knows nothing of honor and I’d bet little of duty.

[Iggo]

34. Later, Fuckface!

[bluedigger]

35. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Berty.

Actually, I don't really care one way or the other.

[Irish_Dem]

36. He wouldn't last a week in a communist country.

These people have no idea what they are talking about.