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Ford Motor Company Employees Call for End of Police Car Production
Breitbart ^ | 11 Jul 2020 | Penny Starr

Posted on 07/11/2020 8:54:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Ford Motor Company’s website features the automaker’s long relationship with law enforcement that dates back seven decades and includes its tagline for the vehicles it has designed for the men and women in blue — “police-tested, street proven.”

But now the wave of social unrest and virtue signaling following the death of George Floyd while in police custody is taking over the corporate world, including at Ford, where workers are urging leadership to stop manufacturing cop cars.

This despite the fact that Ford expresses pride about its connection to law enforcement, according to its website:

Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. Over the following decades, we’ve worked alongside law enforcement agencies with a purpose-built philosophy that continues today. Every vehicle is built with what we call the Ford Police DNA – safety, durability, performance, purpose built and upfit friendly.

Like the officers who drive them, Ford police vehicles are specialized to meet the needs of the communities they serve – providing law-enforcement agencies of all stripes with the ideal tools to get the job done.

But now anti-police rhetoric is spilling over into action taken against not just police officers who have committed crimes but all men and women in uniform — 800,000 in the United States, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

“Since the first recorded police death in 1786, there have been more than 22,000 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty,” the memorial website states.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: lightman; E. Pluribus Unum; 867V309

Well, then that’s better news.


21 posted on 07/11/2020 9:12:44 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale


Prove they won’t.

wow      that's a moronic argument


22 posted on 07/11/2020 9:13:21 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: 867V309

Takes one to know one, I suppose.

You have yourself a great night.


23 posted on 07/11/2020 9:14:45 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Jane Long

I have a hard time believing the line workers would have done this on their own initiative.


24 posted on 07/11/2020 9:15:05 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: truthkeeper

Yup.


25 posted on 07/11/2020 9:15:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: 867V309
we seriously need some sort of IQ or at least sentient being filter here at FR

LOL...be careful what you ask for....you'd be the first to be 'sifted'.

29 posted on 07/11/2020 9:18:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
*mental note to self*..start shorting Ford stock....little bit at a time....
30 posted on 07/11/2020 9:18:57 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: 867V309

:^) Damn, you’re clever.

Must have spent all day thinking that one up.


31 posted on 07/11/2020 9:19:32 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fire the bastards. I’m sure it’s a small minority and they’re probably lousy workers and troublemakers.


32 posted on 07/11/2020 9:19:42 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: NFHale

Ford hasn’t folded... yet.


33 posted on 07/11/2020 9:21:14 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Thanks. I'd been looking for the stats on how many employees were involved.

This scam has been pulled hundreds of times. A tiny number of people, and the megaphone of the press makes it sound like it was a union vote or something.

Everything you see in the press is a lie.

34 posted on 07/11/2020 9:22:44 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: truthkeeper

“Shame on Ford for caving to these malcontents.”

Ford hasn’t caved. At least not yet. Hopefully they’ll grow a backbone like the Goya guy.


35 posted on 07/11/2020 9:23:27 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Jane Long

That’s a very carefully and nicely worded “GFY” letter.

CC


36 posted on 07/11/2020 9:23:40 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: aquila48

Glad to hear it. I hope they don’t.


37 posted on 07/11/2020 9:24:01 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let me guess....the Ford workers who are bitchin’ are mostly black.


38 posted on 07/11/2020 9:25:11 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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LOL...be careful what you ask for....you'd be the first to be 'sifted'.

ok...

NFHale said I’ll never buy their products again.

I said you're very confused because that was a few workers. not ford

now you say "you'd be the first to be 'sifted'"

you need to re-read the thread


39 posted on 07/11/2020 9:26:27 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: NFHale
I’ll never buy their products again.

Why, Ford hasn't caved. Ford statement:

"We are proud Ford vehicles are the first choice of first responders, including with police. We will continue to support these customers because good law enforcement agencies and officers play a critical positive role in our communities"

40 posted on 07/11/2020 9:27:18 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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