Of course the police stood down. Why interfere with someone promoting something most of them believe? Any plausible excuse not to interfere, and they’re good. They’ll probably slow-roll the response too when this asshole comes back and starts shooting, or cower in their cars like the officer at Parkland.
I know a lot of cops and a lot of corrections officers, and they are almost universally republican, almost universally MAGAts, almost universally deep into the latest conspiracy theories, and almost universally unvaccinated. I do some contract work in the medical clinic at a local prison: the union there, which fortunately I do not have to be a member of, is strongly discouraging employees from getting vaccinated, and fighting the state tooth and nail to resist any mandate for masking or vaccines. Meanwhile, this same prison ran wild with COVID among both employees and prisoners till it burned itself out.
