Public-sector unions often protect the government at the expense of the people.
[Ed. Note: Riiight…. SIX police officers… All claiming… Okay, ready for this? That they couldn’t get a handcuffed nine-year-old girl into a police car. Thank god she wasn’t 13 years old… You might have had to shoot her in the face to get her in line.]
by Billy Binion
Reason.com
The police union in Rochester, New York, is defending a group of cops who pepper-sprayed and handcuffed a nine-year-old girl on Friday.
“They were trying to get her into the car,” said Mike Mazzeo, president of the Locust Club police union, at a press conference. The officer who pepper-sprayed the girl “made a decision there that he thought was the best action to take,” Mazzeo declared. “It resulted in no injury to her. Had they had to go and push further and use more force, there’s a good chance she could have been hurt worse. It’s very difficult to get someone into the back of a police car like that.”
In this case, that someone was a child—what’s more, a child who wasn’t suspected of committing any crime.