Crime 12 House Republicans voted AGAINST congressional medal for Cops who almost died to save their lives

Ophydian said:
Congress has authority over the Capitol Police, what don't you understand? It's not like DC can give them awards as they are not DC police.
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So their department has no award they can give them?
Link to this.
 
oldshadow said:
They all didn't do anything more then other cops that don't get this award. The only exception would be the 911 ones that died.

All in all its not a big deal if they get the award but I think at that level it should mean more. It should be so far above that a department medal will not be enough and this doesn't met that.

And I support the objections over the wording.
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So then you object to Trump awarding those officers in both cases? I am just trying to clear this up that you are being consistent here.
 
oldshadow said:
So their department has no award they can give them?
Link to this.
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Think of these awards more like combat medals. This one is specific to the Capitol Insurrection.
There are only 3 award Capitol police have. This way, the awards the currently have can mean more to the individual officers as they have been awarded so rarely.

Medal of Valor
The Medal of Valor shall be the highest award that may be bestowed upon any member of this agency. It shall be awarded only in exceptional instances involving extremely hazardous circumstances in which a member has actually risked his or her life in the performance of duty. The acts or acts performed shall be of an extraordinary nature, beyond the call of duty, which exposed the member's life to extreme danger, or resulted in the member's death.



Citation for Bravery
The Citation for Bravery shall be presented to a member of this agency who has performed an act of bravery which has been beyond the call of duty, where the member's physical safety has been perilously exposed to danger in order to save the life of another, or to perform an extraordinary and heroic police duty.

It's only been awarded once.

Distinguished Service Citation
The Distinguished Service Citation shall be presented to a member of this agency who has rendered a service beyond the ordinary call of duty. It shall recognize those incidents where the member's diligence, perseverance, and timely judgment in the performance of a difficult task has resulted in the protection of life or property, the prevention of a major crime, the saving of a life or the apprehension of an armed and dangerous criminal.

It's been award 6 times.
 
Ophydian said:
Think of these awards more like combat medals. This one is specific to the Capitol Insurrection.
There are only 3 award Capitol police have. This way, the awards the currently have can mean more to the individual officers as they have been awarded so rarely.

Medal of Valor
The Medal of Valor shall be the highest award that may be bestowed upon any member of this agency. It shall be awarded only in exceptional instances involving extremely hazardous circumstances in which a member has actually risked his or her life in the performance of duty. The acts or acts performed shall be of an extraordinary nature, beyond the call of duty, which exposed the member's life to extreme danger, or resulted in the member's death.



Citation for Bravery
The Citation for Bravery shall be presented to a member of this agency who has performed an act of bravery which has been beyond the call of duty, where the member's physical safety has been perilously exposed to danger in order to save the life of another, or to perform an extraordinary and heroic police duty.

It's only been awarded once.

Distinguished Service Citation
The Distinguished Service Citation shall be presented to a member of this agency who has rendered a service beyond the ordinary call of duty. It shall recognize those incidents where the member's diligence, perseverance, and timely judgment in the performance of a difficult task has resulted in the protection of life or property, the prevention of a major crime, the saving of a life or the apprehension of an armed and dangerous criminal.

It's been award 6 times.
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Sounds like one or two may deserve this.
Distinguished Service Citation
 
Queen B said:
Gee its almost like they knew the white supremacist insurrectionists were their friends or something






Heres ANOTHER Republican congressman saying hes never felt threatened (presumably because they were White Supramacists)

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When I get time, I’ll compile a list of everyone who voted these charlatans into office
The people deserve to know
 
Mike Hagger said:
For sure but I also recognize sentiments expressed by that troll account are not unique in ideology.
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I've never seen any posts praising cop killers or violence towards police. You appear to have made up an imaginary group of people.
 
blaseblah said:
I've never seen any posts praising cop killers or violence towards police. You appear to have made up an imaginary group of people.
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You been here for a few years and haven’t seen that?
That is 100% a real group of people.
 
Mike Hagger said:
Is this coming from the corner of the room that applauds cop killers? Violent protest? And routinely refers in derogatory terms to LEOs?

Fuck off. So some GOP members voted no. But the resolution passed.

Oh and for brevity sake here’s an article containing some of the reasons why:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...sional-medal-to-capitol-police-heres-why/amp/
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Wow, they voted “no” in order to suck up to the disgraced former President and his insurrection crew.

That changes everything.
 
James Bomb said:
Wow, they voted “no” in order to suck up to the disgraced former President and his insurrection crew.

That changes everything.
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That’s not what the representatives said... one literally said they voted no because the capital building was referred to as a temple.

Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) also objected to the word “temple,” writing in a statement, “it’s not a temple and Congress should not refer to it as one. The federal government is not a god.”

This is a nothing burger. The bill passed overwhelmingly.
 
oldshadow said:
So why not a department award like the links i posted. And the reason the Republicans voted against it was the wording.
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Because of all things I just listed. His bravery and actions didn't just risk his life to save others, they also foiled a terrorist plot to disrupt an election of president. One of the important features of our democracy. And he did so without harming anyone. That's about as impactful an action as one police officer could have on this nation. And he wasn't following orders, he thought of this successful strategy on the fly while the mob attacking with weapons.
 
Queen B said:
Gee its almost like they knew the white supremacist insurrectionists were their friends or something






Heres ANOTHER Republican congressman saying hes never felt threatened (presumably because they were White Supramacists)

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Karen B was happy until she realized most of the cops were white.
 
Mike Hagger said:
That’s not what the representatives said... one literally said they voted no because the capital building was referred to as a temple.

Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) also objected to the word “temple,” writing in a statement, “it’s not a temple and Congress should not refer to it as one. The federal government is not a god.”

This is a nothing burger. The bill passed overwhelmingly.
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You couldn’t come up with a bigger list of Trump suck ups than that crew.

Temple? Lol, that’s surely the reason.
 
lol the US has long since jumped the shark. We're in final season GoT territory right about now.
 
Mike Hagger said:
That’s not what the representatives said... one literally said they voted no because the capital building was referred to as a temple.

Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) also objected to the word “temple,” writing in a statement, “it’s not a temple and Congress should not refer to it as one. The federal government is not a god.”

This is a nothing burger. The bill passed overwhelmingly.
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Bills have 10’s of thousands of words. To use one word as an excuse not to vote on something so positive is a chicken shit excuse.
 
Don't see it mentioned on the first page.. but the reason they object is because of the use of insurrection, not the officers getting an award
 
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