After spending 25 years in Federal Law Enforcement, I had my share of black bands around my badge honoring my fellow fallen officers. Some of them died in the line of duty, medical conditions, and suicide.
To read the Democrats, and the mainstream media, blame President Trump for the suicide rate increase among law enforcement because of the events of January 6th, is completely preposterous.
Furthermore, it is an insult to the memories of those officers and their families.
I place the blame on the radical politicians, BLM, Antifa, and the Defund the Police movement. When these people go around calling police officers, pigs, racists, and Nazi’s, nothing good can come out of it.
When radical members of Congress are advocating for defunding police departments, and local governments wanting to get rid of law enforcement all together, no wonder police officers are having a hard time doing their jobs or even staying on the job.
I have never met a law enforcement officer who didn’t love their job. You have too, otherwise you couldn’t do it. Enforcing the laws enacted by bureaucrats is not an easy task.
Mainly because those same politicians will not back them up, and most of the time criticize the police officers they have entrusted to enforce such laws. It is a thankless job, but one I found very honorable and rewarding.
It has been reported three Metropolitan Police Officers and one MPD Officer have committed suicide since the events of January 6th at the Capitol. The mainstream media has gone full blown crazy blaming President Trump for those deaths.
We will never know why those officers committed suicide, but I could come up with my own questions and scenarios. Were these officers approached by congressional staffers and asked to provide false testimony in front of Congress? Did they feel guilty for their own actions or inactions during the events at the Capitol? I guess we will never know.
The four officers, Officer Kyle De Freytag, Gunther Hashida, Howard Liebengood, and MPD Officer Jeffrey Smith, were season veterans of the police force. These were not rookie officers, and the events of January 6th would have been garden variety, and far from a reason to kill themselves over it. Nevertheless, they will be missed.
It is hard for me to believe, given all the resources afforded to law enforcement officers to cope and deal with traumatic events, these officers, one day, out of the blue, decided to kill themselves. Again, we will never know.
Given the so-called gravity of the events; did the department conduct proper debriefings in the aftermath of the event? How much did the supervisors know about the officer’s state of mind after the incident? Were they afforded any help?
I questioned the way these officers were dealt with, if in fact they committed suicide because of their involvement in the events of January 6th. Lots of questions with little answers.
I understand, blaming President Trump is the lowest hanging fruit available for the Democrats and the mainstream media, but they should be ashamed of themselves.
The truth is movements like BLM, Antifa, Defund the Police, and our own radical members of Congress, are to blame for the stress in which police officers have been operating.
Police officers are spat on, called names, assaulted, and belittled for doing their jobs. They are the ones trying to protect property from looting by the likes of these subversive groups. They should be praised and respected, not treated like garbage.
Law enforcement suicides are a serious issue, and it needs to be acknowledged. Politicians, should not be using the deaths of these police officers to score points, after all, you could say their deaths are on their hands.
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