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Although overwhelming public disapproval put an end to most of the “defund the police” rhetoric of the far left in recent years, anti-law enforcement sentiment is still palpable across the Democratic Party.
That fact was recently exemplified in Illinois, where lawmakers are trying to advance legislation that would empower citizens to physically attack officers.
Fox News provided the details:
Democratic state Rep. Lisa Davis, an attorney in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender’s office, introduced House Bill 3458 in February.
Under the terms of the legislation, the bill would “[provide] that it is a defense to aggravated battery when the individual battered is a peace officer and the officer responded to an incident in which the officer interacted with a person whom a reasonable officer could believe was having a mental health episode and the person with whom the officer interacted has a documented mental illness and acted abruptly.”
The bill has picked up two co-sponsors, Reps. Marcus Evans and Kelly Cassidy.
Currently, a person in Illinois can be charged with aggravated battery if they attack “an individual whom the person knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman, private security officer, correctional institution employee, or Department of Human Services employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent persons.”
The left’s antipathy toward police has been widely documented on social media in recent years:
Democrat supporters outside the debates in Houston harassed police officers by yelling obscenities at them like “F*ck the police”
Accusing them of working w/ the Ku Klux Klan & being the American Gestapo
This anti-police stance is common at left wing events & growing pic.twitter.com/GwGGgKVqeZ
— E (@ElijahSchaffer) September 13, 2019
Dems own the “Defund the Police” movement.
Despite every American knowing it’s wrong, they gave it a platform, rushed to endorse it, and put the idea to the test.
The results are disastrous and their attempts to say it’s on Republicans are pathetic. pic.twitter.com/p1Sbe8iM2n— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) July 21, 2021
The platform of the Democratic Party is becoming more in line with Antifa.
“We believe in a complete abolition of the system itself, including police”#ExposeAntifa
pic.twitter.com/JRmy4RiSe7— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 9, 2020
For his part, Trump has remained a staunch supporter of law enforcement, as he exhibited last year at the wake for Jonathan Diller, a New York officer killed in the line of duty.
As the Daily Wire reported at the time:
“What happened is such a sad, sad event. Such a horrible thing, and it’s happening all too often and we’re just not going to let it happen, we just can’t,” Trump said in brief remarks at the funeral. “But the Diller family will, you’ll never be the same, you can never be the same, but we have to stop it, we have to stop it. We have to get back to law and order. We have to do a lot of things differently because this is not working. This is happening too often.”
Trump noted that the Queens man accused of murdering Diller, 34-year-old Guy Rivera, had a lengthy history of run-ins with the police before Monday’s fatal shooting. Rivera had at least 21 prior arrests. Rivera has been charged with first degree murder and attempted murder related to Monday’s shooting.
“This is such a sad occasion. The only thing we can say is maybe something is going to be learned. We’ve got to strengthen it up, we’ve got to toughen it up,” Trump said.
He recently honored Diller’s widow during a congressional address:
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