Is for democrats, mainstream media, and liberal activists to treat our law enforcement officers as well as convicted criminals, cold-blooded killers, and illegal aliens.
Besides the disastrous bail reform, which has unleashed crime and carnage across New York (NY) state, one of the other rushed, half-witted actions taken by former Governor (D-NY) Andrew Cuomo and his fellow democrats was to repeal 50A. In the name of police reform and transparency for George Floyd’s death, they overturned a decades-old law to “allow the release of unsubstantiated or false complaints against police officers.”
Ironically, three years later, under the guise of criminal justice reform and social justice, Governor (D-NY) Kathy Hochul, along with a democrat supermajority in the State Senate and Assembly, passed the Clean Slate Act in 2023, allowing the records of convicted criminals with misdemeanors and even some felonies to be sealed. So now, in the name of transparency and justice, a convicted criminal can file a false complaint to forever tarnish the record and reputation of an innocent officer, but that criminal will have a clean slate.
Also in NY, thanks to democrat criminal justice reforms, in the past 8 years, 43 convicted cop killers have been released by democrat-appointed parole board appointees. Among those recently released is Lee Ernest Walker, who on June 15, 1984, while being questioned about a pair of stolen sunglasses, assaulted NYPD Officer Juan Andino, stole his duty weapon, and murdered him with it.
Besides releasing convicted cop killers, democrats and their activists have a habit of demonizing cops for defending themselves and others.
On March 13, 2020, while conducting a search warrant at the apartment of Breonna Taylor, Louisville, KY Police Department Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly was shot in the leg by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.
Fearing for their lives, Sgt. Mattingly, Detectives Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison justifiably returned fire into the apartment, tragically killing Breonna Taylor. Protests erupted nationwide, laws were passed in Breonna’s name, and both detectives were fired.
Democrat leaders used the shooting to “call for police reform and an overhaul of the criminal justice system.” Democratic Presidential nominee Biden remarked, “In the wake of her tragic death, we…ask ourselves whether justice could be equally applied in America.”
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), tweeted: “We must keep saying her name and demanding justice because the police who killed her still have not been charged.” Progressive defund the police ”Squad” member, Rep. (D-MA) Ayanna Pressley wore a shirt outside the capitol that said “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.”
A year later on April 20, 2021, Ma’Khia Bryant was about to stab another female in the street when responding Columbus, OH Police Officer Nicholas Reardon arrived in the nick of time and justifiably shot her before she could.
In response protestors took to the streets demanding “police accountability”; as did Lebron James who tweeted a photo of Officer Reardon along with, “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY”; Representative (D-OH) Joyce Beatty lambasted the shooting and Biden’s White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki insinuated race was a factor, remarking that “police violence disproportionately impacts Black and Latino people.”
Even though it was justified deadly force, Columbus Mayor(D) Andrew Ginther used the shooting to invite the Department of Justice to review the police department for possible “deficiencies and racial disparities.”
Meanwhile, democrats and their allies sympathize with suspected cold-blooded killers.
Although video shows United Healthcare CEO, husband, and father Brian Thompson getting shot from behind as he arrives at a hotel for a December 4, 2024, meeting, suspected premeditated executioner Louis Mangione has a “cult-like following” among the left and politicians blaming his victim. When asked about the execution, former The Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz told Piers Morgan that she felt “joy” at the murder and “not empathy,”; University of Pennsylvania English Professor Julia Alekseyeva posted on Instagram that Mangione was the “icon we all need and deserve”; and “Squad” member Rep. (D-NY) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, claimed Thompson had committed his own “act[s] of violence” by failing to grant every single insurance claim.
Seventee-year-old Karmelo Anthony who told police, “I’m not alleged, I did it,” regarding the April 2, 2025, stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe at a high school track meet, has also become a darling of the left. A GiveSendGo fundraiser garnered Anthony’s family over $520K, and he’s portrayed as the victim even though he illegally brought a knife to a school event, sat in another team’s tent area, refused to leave, and taunted Austin to put his hands on him and see what happens. The family spokesman rallying to defend Anthony is Dominique Alexander, a Dallas-based defund the police activist and social justice leader with his own criminal history and close ties to former Squad Rep. (D-MO) Cori Bush.
Democrats’ hypocrisy and disdain for law enforcement also extend to our brave men and women protecting our borders.
Attempting to control a surge of roughly 14,000 Haitian migrants in September 2021, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on horseback “used the tactics they were trained to use, to do the job [Biden] sent them out to do.” When pictures of the encounter went viral, even after the photographer defended the agents, President Biden and his fellow democrats wrongly accused them of whipping the illegal invaders.
Biden remarked, “It was horrible what you see, what you saw — to see people treated like they did, with horses nearly running them over and people being strapped. It’s outrageous. I promise you; those people will pay.” VP Harris told “The View”, “I was outraged by it. It was horrible and deeply troubling.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters, “those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.” Though completely innocent of the accusations levied at them, the agents were moved to desk duty and still faced disciplinary actions by the Biden administration.
While democrats vilified CBP agents for doing their job, they have spent 2025 rallying around the illegal immigrants flaunting our nation’s laws and sovereignty. Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) dared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to “come and get” the illegal immigrant he suggested was harboring in his home.
Democratic Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, resigned and was arrested after it was discovered he was harboring an illegal Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang member. In democrats’ most flagrant display of supporting a violent, criminal illegal alien over the police who investigated him and federal agents who deported him, Sen. (D-MD) Chris Van Hollen and then a congressional delegation, including Reps. (D-FL) Maxwell Frost, (D-AZ) Yassamin Ansari, (D-OR) Maxine Dexter, and (D-CA) Robert Garcia, flew to El Salvador demanding that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be returned to the US. Democrats and the mainstream media refer to Garcia as a “Maryland man” who has been denied due process.
In reality, he is an El Salvadoran who illegally entered America in 2011, is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, and wife-beater with a 2019 removal order issued against him.
As democrats are busy flying around the world to defend Garcia, law enforcement officers from around our country will be converging upon Washington, D.C., for this year’s National Police Week, May 11-17th, to honor the lives of 345 officers killed in the line of duty. 148 of those officers were murdered in 2024, some because of the very anti-police, pro-criminal atmosphere that democrats foster.
Yet, how many democrats flew to the funeral of Border Patrol Agent Christopher Luna, who died on March 4, 2024, when the U.S. Army National Guard Helicopter he was in crashed while responding to a suspected illegal crossing near La Grulla, Texas?
Which democrats issued proclamations honoring Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Joseph Love who died on October 19, 2024, from the cancer he developed following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks? Have any democrats posted on social media recognizing the anniversary of the murder of NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia, who was gunned down by a “cop hating assassin” as she sat in her patrol vehicle on July 5, 2017?
It’s doubtful any did, but assuredly they acknowledged the anniversary deaths of Breonna Taylor and even George Floyd, a convicted criminal who once held a gun to a woman’s stomach during a home invasion robbery. If democrats want to support law enforcement, instead of giving us lip service this one week, they should stop racializing, vilifying, and politicizing our police the rest of the year. And please, take the bullseyes off our backs and let us do our job of protecting the American people.
Mike Simonelli is an Army Combat Veteran (Afghanistan and Iraq), retired Suffolk County NY, Police Officer, former PBA Board member, and author of Justified Deadly Force and the Myth of Systemic Racism.
