President Donald Trump told his speech to a joint session of the Congress that he will work to protect and support the police. But his words triggered a violent reaction that included a Democratic legislator who accused him of the “height of the hypocrisy” and a former police officer of the Capitol said that Trump forgave 1,500 people who attacked him and his colleagues during the insurrection of January 6.
Harry Dunn, a former police officer of the Capitol who risked his life to defend the Capitol building as Trump supporters in 2021, criticized Trump in a series of positions at the Bluesky social media site while the president was heading to Congress on Tuesday night.
“Trump threatens public security,” Dunn said in a publication.
In an improvised position, Dunn, 41, wrote in all capital letters: “You arranged our attackers.”
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the Congress against the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber and Vice President JD Vance in the United States Capitol, on March 4, 2025 in Washington.
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During his speech on Tuesday night, Trump did not mention the insurrection, of which, according to the final report of the January 6 Chamber Committee, he allegedly dedicated himself to a “multiple conspiracy” criminal to revoke the legal results of the presidential elections of 2020 and could not act to prevent his supporters from attacked the Capitol.
In his speech, the president talked about obtaining police officers throughout the country “the support, protection and respect they deserve so much.”
“They have to get it. They have such a hard and dangerous job,” Trump said. “But we will do it less dangerous. The problem is that the bad guys do not respect the law, but they are beginning to respect it, and soon they will respect it.”
In the first two months of 2025, at least 58 police have been shot in the fulfillment of duty, including eight who were killed, according to A report Launched on March 3 by the National Order of the Fraternal Police. The report showed that the number of police shootings has dropped 11% from this time in 2024.
Among the officers killed this year are the police officers of Virginia Beach, Cameron Girvin, 25, and Christopher Reese, 30, who, according to the authorities, were shot at close range on February 25, since they were already lying on the ground injured and helpless after a traffic stop. The alleged murderer, who according to the police, died of a self -inflicted gunshot wound, was identified as John McCoy III, 42, a convicted criminal.
The Virginia Beach Police Department published photos of the officers killed Cameron Girvin and Christopher Reese, on February 25, 2025.
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Trump said that one of the first steps he has taken since he returned to the White House is signing an executive order that requires a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of murdering a police officer.
“And tonight, I ask Congress to approve that policy in permanent law,” Trump said.
Trump cited the fatal shooting of March 25, 2024 of the New York Police officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot dead while making a traffic stop in Queens, becoming the first New York police officer killed in the fulfillment of duty in two years. The suspect, who was shot and injured by Diller’s partner, was identified as Guy Rivera, 34.
Police officers attend the funeral of the New York Police officer, Jonathan Diller.
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Rivera, who declared himself innocent of a murder position, was previously arrested 21 times, according to police records. Also arrested in the fatal shooting, there was Lindy Jones, 41, who was in the car with Rivera at the time of the shooting. Jones declared himself innocent of being a criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a disfigured firearm. Jones had 14 previous arrests, including the attempted murder and robbery, and was released on bail in relation to a separate crime at the time of the shooting, the police records indicate.
“We are going to get these cold -blooded murderers and repeat the criminals from our streets. And we will do it quickly. I have to stop it,” said Trump, who attended Diller’s Wake.
Trump asked the Congress to approve a new crime bill destined to “be more difficult in repeat offenders while improving protections for US police officers so they can do their job without fear that their lives are totally destroyed.”
After Trump’s speech, representative Sylvia García, D-Texas, Published a statement In social networks accusing Trump of “the apogee of hypocrisy.”
“Trump speaks a great game about standing with … Blue, but on the first day of his administration he forgave hundreds of police firefighters who tried to steal an election on January 6, 2021,” Garcia wrote.
The representative Judy Chu, D-California, who left Trump’s speech with other Democrats, also resorted to social networks, destination“Trump insults the American people saying: ‘Let’s recover law and order.’ Among their first acts as president?
The representative Lois Frankel, D-Fla., Cited the hundreds of FBI agents and employees of the Department of Justice who have lost their jobs in the radical reduction of the Trump administration in the federal workforce supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and the new Government Efficiency Department (Doge).
“Pure hundreds of FBI and DOJ agents who investigated the insurrection of January 6, the agents of the career law, not the names of politicians) does not make us safer, safer or safest,” Frankel wrote on social networks.
