Why Are Police Unions Pushing Back Against Vaccine Mandates? - All In - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

“There is a shockingly revealing trend happening in the law enforcement circles that demonstrates how many American police officers view themselves with respect to public safety and the vaccines,” says Chris Hayes. Aired on 08/27/2021.

[Blue Owl]

1. Because they all fucking suck

GOP-led thug enablers

[Dawson Leery]

2. Police "Unions" are run by the most extreme elements of the industry

who share much in common with the Latin Kings.

[PortTack]

3. +1000..they are the kind one finds at your local friendly capital insurrection

[Dawson Leery]

4. The Chicago FOP chair is an open sympathizer to the cause.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. And it blew my mind that #@$! Tucker Carlson was saying Derek Chauvin was not responsible

For the death of George Floyd!

[RockRaven]

6. Because they are bloodthirsty fascists who get off on hurting people, and purposely infecting

the public -- who often cannot refuse the interaction -- is another way of doing that?

[bottomofthehill]

7. They are just a gang

No different than the Crips, the Bloods, the Hells Angels, but with police powers and immunity. I am a pro union person, but fuck them.

[Nay]

8. Because large numbers of ppl in law enforcement are MAGATs, and proud of it. nt

[dutch777]

9. I think any union or labor organization has trouble right now representing ALL its members

I have little science on this, so anyone with more science or direct knowledge. feel free to blast away. But my sense is that, generally, any defined interest work group you care to poll, be it first responders, medical professionals, trade unions, public employees, teachers unions, etc. have somewhere between 25 and 35% of their constituents that have issue with any sort of vaccine mandate. Some of that is based on basic free choice arguments, some is concerns about vaccines efficacy and safety and some is clearly from misinformation rife in the social media. While these groups theoretically have "leaders", in fact most often, those "leaders" bend in whatever direction the wind is blowing. And I think it is no different that the DeSantis and Abbott math equation. I can go "No mask" and immediately garner 35% of the voter base. Boom! Now I only need to find 16% of the rest to support me, even if tepidly, and I win! It is the worst kind of leadership in whatever setting but I think it is the current algorithm for many politicians and other, so called, leaders. This works because the 65 to 75% who follow reason and science are TOO F***ing quiet.

[magicarpet]

10. Toxic masculinity at its full glory.....

Republicans = machismo,...

DemocRAT = pansy/snowflake

[The Jungle 1]

11. Fox drives the wedge deeper on purpose.

People like tucker and limpballs do this for a reason. Limpballs started it and caused great harm to this nation. The cause is white supremacy.

The right wing of this nation is scared to death of the emerging demographics of this nation. They fear the the present minorities will treat them the same way they treated the present minorities.

Just ask the minority police who defended our capital on 1/6 about racism. We need more reporting on the racism that was on display 1/6.