NYPD lieutenant apologizes for taking knee with protesters

Protests cure Covid?

An NYPD Lieutenant Robert Cattani was not wearing his Colin Kaepernick "Pig Socks" when he took a knee in late April alongside George Floyd protesters, but his virtue-signaling helped maintain the false narrative that police are racists and brutal in spite of the facts. How Cattani is a cop, much less a lieutenant, is astonishing.

Rather than facing his fellow officers face-to-face, he sent them an email telling them "the cop in me wants to kick my own ass."

The New York Post obtained a June 3 email by Cattani of the Midtown South Precinct. In the cowardly email he said that he regrets his "horrible decision to give into a crowd of protesters' demands" by kneeling at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan along with a few other cowardly officers, but perhaps they were scared or actually believe the crap being spread by Antifa and their ilk.

“The conditions prior to the decision to take a knee were very difficult as we were put center stage with the entire crowd chanting,” Cattani posted. “I know I made the wrong decision. We didn’t know how the protesters would have reacted if we didn’t and were attempting to reduce any extra violence.” They may have hit him or called him names.

Video from the demonstration shows thousands of protesters chanting and rhyming, “NYPD, take a knee” at the men in blue who obediently did what they were told.

After some prodding from the crowd, at least four cops knelt and were met with raucous cheers. Fortunately for the cops, nobody in the crowd peed on them or shot Silly String at them.

Cattani made the excuse: “I thought maybe that one protester/rioters who saw it would later think twice about fighting or hurting a cop,” he wrote. “I was wrong. At least that [sic] what I told myself when we made that bad decision. I know that it was wrong and something I will be shamed and humiliated about for the rest of my life.”

Good for him. Humiliation over failure to perform one's sworn duty is cleansing and good.

“We all know that a–hole in Minneapolis was wrong,” Cattani added, referring to fired cop Derek Chauvin who has been charged with murdering Floyd. Cattani also knows that Chauvin is the exception, not the norm, of that kind of behavior and taking a knee puts that fact into question by the a-holes he knelt with.

“I could not imagine the idea of ever coming back to work and putting on the uniform I so wrongly shamed,” he wrote. “However, I decided that was the easy way out for me and I will continue to come to work every day being there for my personnel.” 

Because he can use the money and hey, retirement is not that far in the future.

Should Cattani be fired?

No. Hopefully those of us on the right don't see every screwup as a reason to add another person to the cancel culture. Let the other a-holes [on the left] run with that idea. Maybe Cattani has even learned from his mistake and I would give him the benefit of any doubt one may have.

Aside from the military in combat, I cannot imagine a tougher job than a police officer. And hearing about an officer exhibiting Stockholm Syndrome can get me angry.


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