https://www.wave3.com/2020/06/03/officers-walk-out-louisville-mayor-greg-fischer-protest/

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Louisville Metro police officers organized a protest of their own Wednesday by walking out on Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, WAVE 3 News Troubleshooters have learned.

Exclusive video (watch in the video player above) showed hundreds of LMPD officers walking out when Fischer arrived to address them.

This happened Wednesday during roll call, as about 200 officers were getting ready for their 12-hour shifts.

The Fraternal Order of Police President Ryan Nichols told WAVE 3 News that officers do not feel supported by Fischer as they try to protect the citizens and the city from violence and looting.

“The Mayor is the leader of our city including this police department,” Nichols said. “For this to be the first time he’s tried to address his officer who have been working in these extremely treacherous conditions after he has made numerous attempts to address other entities, they feel completely disrespected and unsupported by him.”

Several officers there told WAVE 3 News the walkout was not planned.

Politicians are treating the police like dogs. If you beat, and mistreat a dog long enough, he might turn on you.

^^^^^^This^^^^^

Need many, many police forces to go on strike.

The problem with police officers striking during hard times is that that ends the trust they had built up. It also leaves the town to the mercy of the bad guys. On the other hand it makes shooting the bad guys a bit more amenable.

Good for them.

Not striking, just turned their backs and went to policing...

Don’t blame them a bit but I doubt it gets his attention. At this point to even pay any heed will get him in hot water politically.

Absolute and utter shame the corner our leaders have painted themselves into.

This needs to happen in more cities. Yesterday Phoenix City council bowed to the protesters by funneling off budget money for the Phoenix PD to go to other programs that the mobs have demanded. Vote was 5-4 but any council member that stood up for Police was treated like ssit.

My son is a Phoenix PD officer so yep I am biased. Would be biased anyway. No white guilt here at all.

Im on full support of PDs everywhere.

Nope, full on strike and let chaos ensue for a while.
Let everyone see our world class [bleep] and wannabe's in action.

They should all call in sick for a few days. Then maybe the folks would elect decent leadership.

Have a sick out!

Shouldn't a case of "Blue Flu" involve a 2-week quarantine? Gotta protect the public by not exposing them to a potential infection!
Jerry

Says the retard that claims he would have shot Chauvin in the chest.

LOL

Yep.

Just let the scchitt hit the wall. Let the mayors and council persons answer to their constituents.

The public understands this.

Hey fugg- - - - -go Flave yourself!

Louisville is a third black. It's going to have major problems if the police back off.

Needs to fire them. You can't let employees disrespect you like that and maintain control. Cops have gone criminally wild and must be brought back under our control.

Most police departments are overstaffed due to liberals increasing funding. Whether it is big-government liberal Republicans with their drug war nonsense or Democrats like Obama pushing for more police in communities with grants, we have many many more cops than necessary. The big risk to police themselves is people remembering how they don't actually need big brother watching them all the time.

Folks are already talking here in GA about how there was no traffic enforcement during weeks of quarantine and nothing went wrong. The riots show that police going too far actually make you less safe because they are so easily overwhelmed.

And?

Amen. Let the libs eat themselves.

Possibly the stupidest statement on the Fire today. Bravo

Just an observation.

They might not need to go on strike. There's a lot of libtards out there pushing to "Defund" police departments all over the place. NYC is one of them. I thought about it for a second, then I thought,"Go for it". Unfortunately, it might create a shortage of popcorn because it would be the greatest show on earth.

blu flu not the wu

don't forget the impact it would have on the doughnut industry

change change they want change

from what to what

This^^^

+2

This is pretty exciting for a Kentuckian. Maybe Louisville will cease to exist!

My two cents

Most city and county political leaders have no understanding of LE in the trenches. I think it would an eye opener if they had to put on a uniform and serve.

City and county political leaders, by failing to back to back LE, will see good men leaving the LE profession, a decline of quality people applying to be a LEO and sales of items from self protection increasing rapidly.

City and county political leaders are failing to realize that 95% or more of LEO are good people.

Is the above series a contest for overstatement in either direction? Having always been a staunch supporter of law enforcement agencies and personnel in general (and that is not likely to change), I find a mix of silliness and realities in that post. One could highlight some of both, but a citizen who has paid careful attention in recent years and who is possessed of reading comprehension and discernment should be able to get it. Look past the unrealistic and impossible first two sentences and then ignore the other overstatements to identify some kernels of observation about that which has evolved and occurred in the LE realm - from the FBI all the way down to rural speed-trap policing - for in doing so you might become inclined to help clean up some of the poor policies and behaviors existing in various venues.

I guess he loves violent criminals to run free and rape pregnant women in their homes at gun point like Floyd did.

Fischer is a POS. I lived in Louisville for about 20 years, and moved out 6 years ago. I know a lot of the cops up there, and they despise the POS. He has offered no leadership whatsoever, and has always been worthless. Most of the cops I knew back then were coming up on retirement, and left at the 20 year mark instead of putting in another 10, because of the poor leadership. The chiefs he's chosen over the years were worse than useless, offering no support to the street cops, and cutting their budgets back, cancelling recruit classes, etc. all the while doing stupid schitt like bike lanes on the already too narrow streets, and placating criminal behavior.

Louisville has had zero leadership for the last 30 years, and it shows now.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you couldn't pass a piss test without cheating.

So they should fire all the thousand s of teachers who walked off the job the past year too?

I'm not saying they should fire all the teachers who walked off the job last year, but I AM saying teachers need to be held to the same standard that bus drivers are, and they should be drug tested.

If they bother to drug test teachers, that would thin out the splinters by a good bit.

And I agree but will never happen.

The good thing is local tyrants are easy to find.

The present state of affairs has nothing to do with cleaning up poor policies and behaviors of LEOs at the street level.

Jmo