To understand @RickyShiffer's attack on the FBI and the dissonance of #DefundTheFBI in the Trumpist "law and order" right, it's instructive to look at two case studies within Cincinnati police: Proud Boy sympatizer Ryan Olthaus and "rogue element" former Asst. Chief Dave Bailey. 
Ryan Olthaus brought attention to himself when he threw the white power hand sign at a Black citizen during a 2020 city council meeting where many called for defunding the police. His problematic social media glorified Proud Boy violence. Full history:
https://twitter.com/FriendsofBones/status/1541900550744178690
The city manager called Dave Bailey a "corrupt", "rogue element" which "ultimately may require the intervention of outside law enforcement to ferret out." Forced to retire, Bailey began calling for civil war and overthrow of the US government, using language similar to Shiffer's.
Bailey's "both sides" pseudo-historicizing equates Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, laying responsibility for a coming racialized civil war on Obama, Democrats, "free stuff", and communists.
This was all posted to the "Support the Blue in Cincy" facebook run by Trumpist Fraternal Order of Police head @realDanHils, who condoned his incitement to violence, while silent on Jan. 6 and Shiffer's attack on law enforcement: facebook.com/groups/4029585…
So much for law and order.
So much for law and order.
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