Port of Seattle Police Officer Greg Anderson filmed an inspirational, timely and truth filled video on May 5th.
Similar to what we have been saying here at Law Officer, he questioned why law enforcement around the country was enforcing newly invented rules in light of COVID-19.
https://youtu.be/UlbVeRxAtaU
“That is not how our job works okay, what really has been pissing me off lately is the fact that these officers that are going out here and enforcing these tyrannical orders… what they’re doing is they’re putting my job and my safety at risk because what you’re doing is your widening the gap between public trust and law enforcement officers,” said Anderson. He went on to say, “I want to remind you that regardless of where you stand on the coronavirus we don’t have the authority to do those things to people just because a mayor or a governor tells you otherwise I don’t care if it’s your sergeant or your Chief of Police we don’t get to violate people’s constitutional rights because somebody in our chain of command tells us otherwise it’s not how this country works those are de facto arrests you know we’re violating people’s rights.”
At first Andersons chain of command agreed with the video but in 3 days time he was told to take it down.
Anderson refused to take the video down the department has placed him on paid leave and is under investigation facing possible termination due to his “insubordination”