Earlier suggestions that multiple officers from each zone had walked off the job were inaccurate. The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift. We have enough resources to maintain operations & remain able to respond to incidents.
CONFIRMED: Atlanta Police Call Out After Officer Garrett Rolfe is Charged with Murder by Fulton County DA Paul Howard + NYPD Withdraws From District Attorney’s Office Following Decision Not to Prosecute Protesters (VIDEO)
By JIM HOFT
June 17, 2020
There are reports tonight that police officers in Atlanta, Georgia walked off the job tonight after murder charges were filed against Officer Garrett Rolfe in the death of Rayshard Brooks last weekend.
Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, was on ABC News tonight to discuss the charges against the Atlanta police officers.
Champion told ABC New, “What we do know is you’re tearing up the Atlanta police department.”
Warning: This ABC news report is hard to watch and loaded with complete BS.
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
“There are officers saying they are not going to leave the precinct unless to help another officer,” Vince Champion, Southeast regional director for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Some are walking off and sitting in their personal vehicles.”
And the Atlanta Police confirmed there was a call out tonight.
Atlanta Police Department✔@Atlanta_Police
The head of Atlanta’s police union confirmed Wednesday that officers from the Atlanta Police Department in Zones 3 and 6 walked off the job Wednesday afternoon.
Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, said that police officers had stopped answering calls midshift, in response to charges against Officer Garrett Rolfe who is accused of murdering Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.
“The union, we would never advocate this. We wouldn’t advocate a blue flu,” Champion said. “We don’t know the numbers. Apparently we’re learning that command staff are asking outlying counties for support and aren’t getting it.”
Decaturish has calls out to public affairs officers in Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb counties for confirmation. A message to the spokesperson for Atlanta Police was not immediately returned.
A spokesperson for APD called reports of a walkout “inaccurate.”
“Earlier suggestions that multiple officers from each zone had walked off the job were inaccurate,” the spokesperson said. “However, the department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call-outs with the incoming shift. We have enough resources to maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents throughout the city.”
Zones 3 and 6 cover south Atlanta, where Rolfe killed Rayshard Brooks after a June 12 DUI arrest turned into an altercation. Rolfe fired three bullets at Brooks as he fled with a taser in hand. Video of the shooting suggests Brooks pointed the taser at officers as he fled.
Can you see a trend growing….good for them….
NYPD withdraws from district attorney’s office following decision not to prosecute protesters
The New York Police Department has removed officers from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the latest example of the growing rift between city leadership and law enforcement.
Hours after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced his office would not be pursuing charges against some protesters who hit the streets following the death of George Floyd, the NYPD reassigned officers posted at his office to the street to help with crowd control, according to the New York Times.
District attorneys in the boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens also declined to charge many protesters who were alleged to have broken the law and received the same response from the NYPD.
New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea denied that the move was related to the announcements from district attorneys, but many believe the timing suggests otherwise. Some police officials have expressed anger at the decision not to prosecute.
“It is a dereliction of duty to their oath of office,” Edward Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said about the moves from the various district attorneys. “More important than undercutting the work of the NYPD, it is undercutting public safety.”
Peaceful protests, looting, as well as violent riots have engulfed New York City following the May 25 death of Floyd while in police custody, exacerbating an already tense situation between the police and New York City leadership, most notably Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The decision not to prosecute comes a week after local prosecutors backed legislation to eliminate the police force’s use of chokeholds, which the department said it would support, with exceptions.
“If we put our hands on the criminal, we are going to jail,” President of the Police Benevolent Association Pat Lynch said of the legislation. “I am not being dramatic. That’s how bad it is. No one has read the bills.”
Another leader of the association, Mike O’Meara, spoke out against the way the NYPD has been treated by the media and politicians amid the growing movement to defund or abolish police departments nationwide by imploring people to stop “vilifying” police and treating them like “thugs.”
Roughly 400 NYPD officers have been injured by protesters in the weeks following Floyd’s death.
BOTTOM LINE: If Demster-driven officials won’t back-up the police — who put their lives on the line, day in and day out — well, the police should really “stand down” and let said officials protect their communities!
Effectively, when citizens realize that their virtue-signaling officials can’t possibly protect them from criminals running wild, perhaps, they will vote them out of office! DA’s, are you listening, too??
After all, when will enough be enough? Time will tell.
