1/ "“I don’t want to see their little smug faces about how much they care about law enforcement when I’m burying a sergeant because they don’t want to piss off the NRA,” Acevedo told reporters on Monday."
2/ "Acevedo clashed last week with Cornyn over why the Violence Against Women Act was stalled in the Senate, which Republicans control."
3/ "“We’ve got to get the Violence Against Women Act acted upon,” he said. “We’ve got to get in a room. I don’t want to hear about how much they support law enforcement, how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives."
4/ "“And yet we all know in law enforcement that this is one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell, and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House, and getting the Violence Against Women...
5/ ...Act, is because the NRA doesn’t like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends.”"
6/ "“And who killed our sergeant?” Acevedo asked. “A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you’re either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you’re here for the NRA.”"
7/7 These quotes are the entirety of the gun laws and Violence Against Women Act debate, and the best rationale for congressional action is stated here by the police themselves.
It's good that the police themselves have called out the GOP as the liars and hypocrites they are.
It's good that the police themselves have called out the GOP as the liars and hypocrites they are.
