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https://twitter.com/tcberenson/status/1423256588979249160
Oh my: "Men wanted to thank him. Children said they looked up to him. Women swooned. (Fanone turned down a request to pose nude in Playgirl.) Liberals posted worshipful memes. Joan Baez, the singer and activist, made an oil painting of his face and captioned it."
“If I didn’t speak out against Trump, would people think I was just another evil white cop?” What he hoped to make people understand was that he wasn’t some exceptional “good cop”—he was every cop."
Fanone called his new friend Eric Swalwell, a Democratic Representative from California, and told him what had just happened.
“What do you want me to do?” Swalwell asked.
“Tweet it, motherf-cker!” said Fanone, who eschews social media.
“What do you want me to do?” Swalwell asked.
“Tweet it, motherf-cker!” said Fanone, who eschews social media.
"They weren’t there to meet other cops. They were there to meet girls. The three police officers took seats at the wine bar in D.C.’s trendy Navy Yard neighborhood—exposed concrete walls, leather banquettes, $13 tuna tartare—and despite its being a wine bar...they ordered beers."
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