By Howie Katz
President Trump holds up executive order pardoning some 1,500 supporters convicted of the January 6 storming of the capitol that resulted in injuring 174 cops
On January 6, 2021, a rioting mob of hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the capitol in an attempt to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of congress from counting the electoral votes that would have declared Biden the winner.
Trump insisted that the storming was a peaceful demonstration by his supporters. That 'peaceful demonstration' resulted in injuring 174 capitol and D.C. cops.
Following a meticulous investigation, some 1,500 rioters were imprisoned after being tried and convicted of the capitol attacks.
A capitol police officer is attacked by a January 6 rioter
Another January 6 rioter is pictured attacking a cop
One of Trump's first acts as president on Monday was the issuing of an executive order pardoning all the rioters convicted of the January 6 storming of the capitol. By doing so, in effect he approved of the attacks on the capitol and D.C. cops.
Cops throughout the country should consider the pardons not just an affront to the 174 injured cops, but as a slap in the face of all the police.
Many of those convicted did not personally attack any police officers but they did participate in what can best be described as an insurrection and deserved to be jailed.
The January 6 pardons are as bad as Biden's pardon of son Hunter, if not worse. In this instance, shame, shame on President Trump.
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