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  • >> Shannon: SOME TENSE MOMENTS

  • OUTSIDE THE TARGET CENTER IN

  • MINNEAPOLIS.

  • MATT FINN IS THERE ON THE

  • GROUND.

  • ON TOP OF THAT, POLICE OFFICERS

  • BARRED FROM WEARING THEIR

  • UNIFORMS TONIGHT IF THEY WEREN'T

  • ON DUTY, MAKING SURE THEY DON'T

  • APPEAR TO BE POLITICAL.

  • OUR NEXT GUEST CREATED A NEW

  • UNIFORM, A RED COPS FOR TRUMP

  • T-SHIRT.

  • JOINING ME NOW, LIEUTENANT BOB

  • KROLL, PRESIDENT OF THE POLICE

  • OFFICERS FEDERATION OF

  • MINNEAPOLIS.

  • YOU ENDED UP ON STAGE WITH THE

  • PRESIDENT TONIGHT.

  • >> I DID, IT WAS AMAZING.

  • >> Shannon: HE'S ALWAYS BEEN A

  • BIG SUPPORTER OF

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT.

  • TONIGHT WAS NO EXCEPTION.

  • MANY OF YOUR MEN AND WOMEN

  • WORKING THE STREETS BECAUSE

  • THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A

  • PRESIDENT COMES TO TOWN.

  • I KNOW YOU WERE ABLE TO EXIT

  • SAFETY.

  • ARE YOU HEARING FROM FOLKS ON

  • THE GROUND HOW THINGS ARE

  • PLAYING OUT NOW?

  • >> YES, IT'S PRETTY -- GET SOME

  • PRETTY DESPICABLE ACTS GOING ON

  • OUT THERE.

  • I HEARD FROM OFFICERS THAT WERE

  • WORKING, THE PROTESTERS WERE

  • INTIMIDATING, SPITTING ON

  • PEOPLE, THROWING, THROWING

  • THINGS AT THEM.

  • ON THE WAY OUT I LEARNED THAT

  • OUR OFFICERS ARE GETTING ROCKS

  • AND BOTTLES THERE AND AT THEM

  • AND THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT

  • THEIR PROTECTIVE HELMETS ON

  • BECAUSE IT WOULD LOOK

  • INTIMIDATING, WHICH IS

  • ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.

  • >> Shannon: WE WISH EVERYONE

  • INVOLVED THEIR SAFETY GETTING

  • HOME AND WE KNOW OUR MEN AND

  • WOMEN ON LAW ENFORCEMENT ON THE

  • FRONT LINES EVERY SINGLE DAY SO

  • WE THANK YOU FOR THAT.

  • THERE WAS A LOT OF CONTROVERSY

  • ON NUMEROUS LEVELS ABOUT THE

  • PRESIDENT COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS

  • AND AT ONE POINT A POLICE CHIEF

  • PUT OUT A STATEMENT OF YOU ALL

  • WEARING UNIFORMS, SAYING THIS.

  • THE NEW POLICY PROHIBITS

  • EMPLOYEES WEARING THE MPD

  • UNIFORM WHILE ENDORSING

  • POLITICAL CANDIDATES, TRUST IS

  • THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR SERVICE

  • AND I BELIEVE THIS POLICY HELPS

  • TO SERVICE US, ASKING OFFICERS

  • TO NOT TAKE SIDES IN POLITICS?

  • >> IT IS FAIR, BUT YOU DON'T

  • CHANGE THE GAME MIDSTREAM PAID

  • FOR 50 YEARS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE

  • BENEFITED FROM THE POLICE

  • FEDERATION'S ENDORSEMENT AND

  • THAT MEANS OFFICERS STANDING

  • BEHIND THE CANDIDATE.

  • AS RECENT AS THE PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • ADMINISTRATION, NOT ONLY WERE

  • OFFICERS BEHIND HIM, THEY

  • DIRECTED IN ORDER TO BE THERE

  • AGAINST THEIR WILL.

  • THERE WERE COMMAND STAFF BEHIND

  • HIM WHO HAVE SINCE ADVANCED IN

  • RANK AND WITH THE PRESIDENT

  • COMING HERE, OUR OFFICERS WANTS

  • TO ATTEND BECAUSE IT'S NIGHT AND

  • DAY WHEN YOU COMPARE PRESIDENTS.

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS A VERY

  • ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESIDENT

  • AND PRESIDENT TRUMP TURNED

  • THINGS AROUND IMMEDIATELY.

  • HE TOOK THE HANDCUFFS OFF OF

  • COPS AND THE LOT ON CRIMINALS

  • BUT MANY OF OUR MEMBERS WANTED

  • TO ATTEND THE SHOW THAT THE PORT

  • SUPPORT.

  • >> Shannon: NOT EVERYBODY IS

  • GOING TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE.

  • MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC RADIO SAYS

  • THIS, "OTHER MEMBERS OF

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT SAY THEY ARE

  • DISTURBED ABOUT THE OVERT

  • POLITICAL SENTIMENT AND THE

  • MESSAGE IT SENDS TO THE

  • COMMITTEE AS WELL AS BY

  • HIGH-PROFILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR

  • DONALD TRUMP."

  • HAVE YOU HEARD FROM OFFICERS

  • WORRIED ABOUT THE POLITICAL

  • PERCEPTION, THE PUBLIC

  • PERCEPTION ON THIS?

  • >> THERE WAS ONE OFFICER WHO HAD

  • QUESTION IT, THERE WAS THE ONLY

  • ONE I HEARD FROM.

  • WE ENDED UP WITH A BUNCH OF

  • THESE FUTURE AND I'M WEARING,

  • THOUSANDS -- WE'VE SOLD OVER

  • 5,000 NOW AND THERE ARE

  • BACKORDERS.

  • HE SAID IS ALL OF THIS WHERE

  • THEY?

  • AS FAR AS OFFICERS, THERE WAS

  • 1 OUT OF 9000 I'VE HEARD FROM.

  • >> Shannon: I DON'T IMAGINE

  • YOU PLAN TO SELL AS MANY

  • T-SHIRTS.

  • I HEARD AT ONE POINT THE WEBSITE

  • WAS DOWN, WASN'T ABLE TO HANDLE

  • THE TRAFFIC.

  • DO YOU THINK THE CONTROVERSY

  • WILL DIE DOWN NOW?

  • >> WELL, AFTER THE PRESIDENT

  • TWEETED OUT THE SITE CRASHED

  • SEVERAL TIMES, WE DON'T HAVE

  • THAT KIND OF VOLUME.

  • EVERYBODY THOUGHT IT WAS A

  • ONE-TIME THING AND THEY HAD TO

  • GET THEM RIGHT NOW.

  • NO, OUR STORE IS OPEN THERE.

  • WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO

  • CARRY THEM.

  • WE ARE HOPING THE PRESIDENT WILL

  • BE BACK AND THEY WILL BE

  • STOCKED.

  • IF YOU ORDERED ONE ONLINE, ALLOW

  • US A WEEK FOR SHIPPING.

  • THESE WENT OUT THE DOOR FAST AND

  • WE ARE SENDING OUT THE ORDER IS.

  • YES, IT'S ONLINE.

  • MPDFederation.com.

  • WE WANTED TO GET THESE OUT TO

  • THE PEOPLE SO WE COULD BE

  • WEARING RED TONIGHT.

  • WE WANT TO BE CONTINUING SALES

  • THROUGHOUT.

  • >> Shannon: THEY ARE

  • BENEFITING AND ORGANIZATION?

  • >> THEY BENEFIT POLICE

  • ORGANIZATIONS AND CHARITIES.

  • YOU ACTUALLY COVERED IT BEFORE.

  • BUT YES, NUMEROUS CHARITABLE

  • DONATIONS COME FROM THE

  • PROCEEDS.

  • >> Shannon: WE HOPE THAT THIS

  • WILL BE A SILVER LINING FOR

  • THEM, THE

>> Shannon: SOME TENSE MOMENTS

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