John Oliver Exposes the Rogue Cops Protesting Vaccine Mandates

Cops—and their unions—have been pushing again in opposition to vaccine mandates and resorting to somewhat diva-like techniques to voice their opposition as a substitute of, you already know, getting a shot that can assist defend themselves and their fellow individuals from a lethal coronavirus that has killed round 5 million individuals worldwide and 736,000 individuals within the U.S. alone.

So, John Oliver weighed in on Sunday’s Final Week Tonight, first slicing to footage of Robert Lamay, a Washington State trooper who determined to movie a video of himself in his squad automobile resigning over the mandate.

“That is the final time you’ll hear me in a state patrol automobile—and Governor Jay Inslee can kiss my ass,” stated Lamay, earlier than dropping his walkie-talkie.

“Ooooh! A walkie drop! You don’t see a lot of these!” exclaimed Oliver. “And that’s in all probability as a result of it seems to be pathetic. Dropping a microphone is inherently thrilling. You get the thud because it hits the ground, and the cheer of the group, however a walkie drop? That’s only a unhappy man sitting in a darkish automobile dropping an object instantly on his penis.”

“All around the nation, a small minority of law enforcement officials have acquired disproportionate protection after threatening to resign over COVID mandates,” Oliver defined. “They body this as a matter of particular person liberty, even in circumstances the place little or no was being requested of them.”

For instance, in Chicago, law enforcement officials have been requested to only register their vaccination standing at a web-based portal—and will nonetheless work their jobs even when they have been unvaccinated, as long as they submitted to common testing—however the portal requirement led John Catanzara, president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, to completely lose it, ordering his officers to “not comply” with the order, and even in contrast the vaccine mandate to the Holocaust.

“We’re in America, goddammit. We don’t need to be compelled to do something. Interval. This ain’t Nazi f*cking Germany, [where they say], ‘Step into the f*cking showers. The tablets gained’t harm you.’ What the f*ck?” he said. (He later issued an apology video.)

“Wow. I imply… only a massive yikes to all the pieces occurring there,” stated Oliver of his apology video, the place he claimed that he “technically” didn’t point out the Holocaust.

By the best way, in response to Oliver, Catanzara has been “suspended eight instances,” and has acquired “extra complaints per yr of service than 96% of his fellow CPD officers,” and but that is who the union selected to characterize them.

“So, subsequent time somebody says to you, ‘Not all cops are dangerous,’ you may reply to them, ‘No… simply their favourite ones,’” Oliver quipped.

So far as deaths within the line of obligation, for the reason that begin of the pandemic greater than 4 instances as many law enforcement officials have died of COVID-19 (473) than gunfire (93), despite the fact that cops have been among the many first to have entry to the vaccine.

“That may be a horrible statistic,” stated Oliver. “Look, there may be additionally the important thing matter of the truth that the police are imagined to be holding the general public secure. That’s the level of their jobs, but some don’t appear to provide a lot of a shit about that.”

“If an officer desires to stop over this, fucking allow them to,” he added. “Let the people who clearly don’t care about public security cease being in control of public security. It truly is that easy.”