Albuquerque cops resign from team that deals with protests

An Albuquerque police union head said Monday that cops are leaving the Emergency Response Team following a protest that has created a situation within the department in which the "morale is gone."

Police Officer Union President Shaun Willoughby spoke on "Fox & Friends" saying that cops don't feel supported and "don't trust their leaders." He added that cops there are "tired of being managed by politics."

Bravo for them--they are taking a stand against the woke mob and it's about time.

In all, seventeen officers, a lieutenant, and two sergeants resigned from the team that directly handles protests following a counter-protest this month, KOB 4 reported.They said that an armed man taunted demonstrators and was detained by the police but was released without being charged with a crime.

The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) officials reportedly reversed that decision and a cop was placed on administrative leave as an investigation was being performed. KOB 4 noted that according to the APD, there was a breakdown in the chain of command about whether charges would be filed against the armed man. In other words, the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing.

Willoughby reportedly told "Fox & Friends" Monday that 20 officers have quit over the last two months from the department. He said, "There is a lack of trust with our administration," noting that "they were not supported."

"Everything in Albuquerque is about constitutional policing unless the constitutional policing doesn't prescribe to the political ideology of whoever is in charge," Willoughby added. "That's not how officers operate. We are not Rubik's Cubes."

Willoughby pointed out that being a part of the Emergency Response Team is "an extracurricular activity" for those officers and that he doubts the APD "will get anybody to replace these jobs."

"We're going to have to use field services and traditional dispatch with civil unrest from now on," he continued, stressing that he doesn’t blame the officers for leaving the team "at all."

"Who wants to take on that professional liability … [of] being involved in these protests that just are never-ending?" he asked.

The APD reportedly said the resignations won’t impact crowd control operations in the future, but we all know their leaders are full of it.

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