Democrats hate the police and want to defund them — unless there’s something in it for them politically.
The demagoguery behind the Democrats’ Jan. 6 commemoration is the latest production in their anti-Trump political theater. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been exploiting the deaths and suicides of five former Capitol Police officers who have no direct connection to the riot. But at least, this one time, Pelosi spoke of these officers’ heroism, bravery, and sacrifice, which is not the sort of thing she usually does for police who die during riots.
Take David Dorn, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Citizen Honors Award. I can’t find any record of Pelosi uttering his name.
Dorn was murdered during the George Floyd riots in July 2020 as he tried to protect a pawn shop. He had retired after serving for more than 30 years in the St. Louis Police Department. He was 77 years old. Dorn died on the sidewalk in front of the shop as people walked around his body carrying stolen property. Pelosi never had anything to say regarding his death.
Granted, some may say that honoring police officers from the Capitol is different from commemorating a tragic death of a retired officer in St. Louis. However, no police officers actually died in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. One of the officers Pelosi mentioned, Brian Sicknick, died the day after the riot after suffering strokes — a medical examiner said that he died from natural causes. The other officers, whose deaths Pelosi honored, died due to suicide, some quite a while after the riot. We don’t know why they killed themselves.
Pelosi doesn’t really care about the deaths of the Capitol Police officers. She doesn’t care about the deaths of any officers. Hopefully, objective people will see through her insincerity.
