JUST IN: Trump Wins Endorsement Of Police Officers Association Of Michigan

I'd like to invite some of the heroes

really law enforcement professionals

here to speak say for just a few minutes

the Biden border bloodbath they want to

talk about it and we will talk about it

our country is in trouble We're a nation

in Decline we're not going to let it

happen we've got to stop it we've got to

win on November 5th and it's all going

to stop and it's going to stop very

quickly thank you very much if I could

I'll ask Police Officers Association of

Michigan President James tanelli to come

up as a fantastic man respected all over

the country thank you James

please what an honor to be here and with

all these leaders of law enforcement and

Congress with you here thank waiting for

the next trip up to DC with you the uh I

wanted to tell you a little bit about

about recruiting retention and what the

life of the police are like right now

that we know that you were going to fix

for us because you did the last time

just because of how you feel about us 45

years ago 45 number sounds to me right

45 years ago uh when I hadir on at the

job 2,000 people would apply for 200

positions because this job of deputy

sheriff and police officer was a very

honorable job the guy down the street

you all knew where they lived you all

looked for them for leadership and

nowadays and say the last 10 years we

can't get enough people to fill the

vacancies the acmy are empty nobody's

coming along and we can't get enough

candidates so why does that happen it's

it's not because there's no desire it's

because of recruiting and recruiting to

me was always the uh um Grandpa Uncle

Joe who was a police officer maybe was

the baseball coach that was a cop during

the week he was the guy that you

respected I didn't come from a law

enforcement family but I came up as a

law enforcement officer because they

were important to me on the east side of

Detroit you needed to have a few friends

in a PD the uh 48205 that's now the most

violent zip code in America I believe

that's where I was at but there's no way

we can have a president of the United

States that allows 3 million people a

year or more I'm sure to come across the

uh to come on our country illegally we

can't allow that to continue it's uh

those who enter they do so in the light

of day they do it by pushing aside our

National Guard then they're handed a a a

gift card they're handed a telephone or

an iPad transportation to anywhere in

the US that they want to go and then you

want to tell these law-abiding people

that are here uh you have to obey the

law there seems like there's no real

reason to do that anymore and that's

made it very hard to be pleasing because

people look to us the law- abiding

people look to us but they're saying

what about that person what about that

you as you've talked about here

today my mind used to say it takes the

wind out of your sales you just kind of

everything calms down it's not so good

the felons that we arrest become

misdemeanant and then they become no

Bond and then they become free guys

really before we get our car cleaned out

at the end of the

shift why would you expect people to

obey the law when millions are rewarded

for disobeying it I don't know how many

officers must get injured or killed or

or Worse the the civilians out there

that are injured or assaulted or killed

and assaulted we've heard about a couple

of them here tonight I know that we can

fill these vacant jobs with good people

I know they're out there I know we can

recruit them but we need a

commanderin-chief

that will give them just simple due

process you've talked about some of the

things that are important to us but they

just need they just need to know they've

got somebody behind them a little bit

instead of trying to push them backwards

pushing them forward I think that'll

help to restore the honor to this job

that that was was such an honorable one

I can promise you that our guys will put

that suit on and go out and do the job

for you they really will and they'll be

better for all of the people in this

room when that happens we always were

what stood between law-abiding citizens

and chaos you hear about it all night

you've talked about it here today uh

instead of those efforts to make the

United States look weak and and the poor

and uh average we need you we need you

to make America look great again and and

I know you I know you have that I know

it's there uh last week when you went to

New York and you attended the viewing of

Jonathan Deer uh I just wanted you to

know that that brought honor to every

police officer every deputy sheriff

every law enforcement

officer wherever we were in this country

when we saw what you did it was like

that's cool that's us that's that's a

boost for all of us it was so so

good uh I hope that you'll consider with

the Congress and the Senate here that we

have that you'll support legislation to

make a a death penalty for killing a

police officer while on

duty and I'll leave you with this uh we

supported you we endorsed you in 2016 we

were the first guys in Michigan and you

you sent me a little video and we still

have it at there a we were proud proud

to do it we were there in 2020 and I

tell you we're here in 2024 and today on

behalf of 12,000 law enforcement people

that the police officers Association of

Michigan represent we want you to accept

our endorsement for president of the

United

States

very important

got thank you for the time thank you

very much

wow thank you very

much that's very

nice that's a great honor and thank you

very much and uh we will we will make

you proud We will make you proud I do

want to thank uh the family because I

met with Stephanie that's Jonathan's

beautiful wife Jonathan Diller and uh uh

I met with the whole family these are

incredible people what happened to

Jonathan should never have happened and

uh they were just devastated but the

spirit and the love and the numbers of

police that were there and fire firemen

fire women uh the number of people that

were there was incredible it just was

incredible but that's an Incredible

family so we send our love uh I said to

Stephanie he will not have died in vain

so but I thank you very much for the

endorsement thank you so uh if I might

we're going to do this very quickly

Sheriff Daniel Abbott as you know van

beran County highly respected and he's

going to say a few words thank you

Daniel so I'll make this pretty brief I

was asked to hit on how the open borders

are affecting us here in Southwestern

Michigan um our county is actually on

the southwestern part of Michigan only

baring below us I ran some numbers

yesterday in our jail facility 40% of

our inmates in our jail in vanan County

have out of County residence residency

out of the

40% that do not live in our County that

we're feeding every day 10% of those

have addresses from Mexico or

Guatemala put that in perspective we we

are a rural community 10% of the folks

in our jail are from Mexico or Guatemala

they're not in our jail by coincidence

we didn't just see them walking down the

road and saying you know what I don't

think you belong here they're in our

jail because they committed crimes if

you look at the heinous crimes that they

committed the one that really jumped out

at us is all the violent sex crimes and

it's not just against adults it's

against our children as well in our

community and that's

appalling to go even further on that

with the open borders the way they are

when President Trump was in office our

narcotic unit was buying a ball of meth

which is 3.5 ounces of Meth for $300 to

$350 for a

ball as of this past week a ball is

$85 because the Market's flooded by the

tons coming across the open borders and

semis when I say tons I mean tons it

used to be a thing of the past or it is

a thing of the past folks doing um

making the meth in their in their own

residences they don't do it anymore

because the cartel is bringing it in by

the tons they're not having to make it

inside their residences hence the cheap

amount that's going out and and the

amount that's on the street it's

disturbing I've got a few bullet points

I want to really drive home to you folks

um career law enforcement officers have

faced incredible challenges these past

four years for several reasons the

DraStic rise in fentanyl as well coming

over the borders touch just about every

family in Southwestern

Michigan you guys all see it on the news

on a regular basis all the ODS and uh

domestic it situations that we handle in

law enforcement we handle roughly two

overdose deaths a week in our County

keep in mind our county is only 76,000

population so at least twice a week

we're handling those and those are

numbers I ran yesterday I just didn't

make those numbers up that's disturbing

it's getting in our schools it's getting

in our children's hands it's very

disturbing it's killing our kids it's

poisoning our communities it's making

the jobs of law enforcement

professionals much more difficult the

open Southern border is the heart of

lawlessness and crime you're witnessing

no make no bones about it we need

leadership at the national level that is

willing to solve this crisis president

Trump without a doubt is the leader we

need to get the job done and get America

safe thank

you thank you very much uh alagan County

Sheriff Frank Baker to say a few words

please Frank thank you

Frank thank you Mr President it's truly

an honor to be here today and talk about

something that's very near and dear to

my heart as well as my fellow sheriffs

and that's safety within our communities

one of the biggest things that we're

facing now and Sheriff Abbott mentioned

it is um the the crime the level of

crime we're seeing but uh the the amount

of Narcotics the illegal narcotics

whether it's methenamine or fentanyl

it's it's devastating our communities

and something needs to be done about

that and the only way we can do anything

is to secure the Border a lot of times

people ask me you know the bord is a

long way from alagan County and yes it

is but there's not a day goes by that's

not impacting what happens in our County

because of the amount of drugs that

we're seeing we used to be known as the

meth capital of the world jokingly

people would say because of the number

of methamphetamine Labs that we' made

arrests for we don't make a rest for

methamphetamine Labs anymore I mean it's

it's a thing of the past because the

illegal drugs that are we're seeing now

the crystal methampetamine is so cheap

as Sheriff Abbot had mentioned it's

cheaper to buy it than it is to make it

so uh we have a crisis on our hands and

we need help and uh part of that help is

going to be securing our borders so I

appreciate you taken the time to meet

with us today to talk about this this

important topic to us because there are

a lot of tragedies that are happening

you mentioned it with Ruby Garcia in

fact a couple of our deputies uh made

the arrest of the suspect in that case

last month so uh it's happening in our

in our neighborhoods even even though

the border is a long ways away and we

need help and so I appreciate what

you're doing to help us and meeting with

us today to talk about this concern

thank

you thank you sherff great great people

behind me is Tom Homan here by any

chance Tom Tom homman where's Tom homman

because I wanted to pay tribute to him

he is some man and uh I know he was

around here I said hello I said I might

bring you up but I'm not going to bring

him up because he's not

here he had to get back to capture

people but