On Wednesday, the head of a Pennsylvania police union endorsed Republican Senator Dave McCormick, citing Democrat Senator Bob Casey’s new interaction with an organization calling for the defunding of police.
Casey appeared at a campaign celebration on Tuesday with Indivisible Philadelphia, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The group, which has called for “fewer officers on the street terrorizing Black and Brown residents” and a reduction in Philadelphia’s police budget, proclaimed in 2020 that it “wo n’t stop until they# DefundThePolice”. It endorsed Casey after Tuesday’s function. Its family business, the Indivisible Project, has pushed to defund police and federal immigration authorities quite as U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
Casey’s association with “defund the officers activists is alarming and exceedingly dangerous,” according to Christopher Eiserman, president of the Delaware County Fraternal Order of Police.
” Casey’s record on crime and surveillance is more in line with Indivisible Philadelphia’s mission than with the citizens of this wonderful commonwealth”, Eiserman said at a press conference Wednesday. Eiserman is the assistant police chief of Folcroft, a district outside Philadelphia. He gave McCormick his support, calling the alleged Republican nominee” a law and order candidate who will work with the authorities and not against us.”
The most recent police organization to support McCormick over Casey, who is one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats seeking reelection this time, is Eiserman’s coalition. Last month, forty-seven deputies endorsed McCormick. In a new Emerson surveys, Casey leads McCormick by only 4 points, which is a slim lead for a three-term president. Republicans have sought to hyperlink Casey to smooth- on- offense policies, highlighting his assistance for intensifying prosecutors.
While Casey says he supports officers, he has praised companies behind the movement to defund law protection, such as Black Lives Matter. Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Casey urged that” organized prejudice in policing” be eradicated. In August 2020, he praised sporting teams for halting activities in response to the police killing of dark Kenosha, Wisconsin, officer who had pulled a knife on a policeman during an imprisonment involving a sexual assault case.
