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Molly Ball @mollyesque
10+ years ago, I posted a silly little video of my cat dipping his paw in a beer glass and then licking it, which was a cute and funny thing he liked to do. YouTube just informed me they've taken it down for violating their "violent or graphic content policy." https://t.co/Ew7V3ASMTM — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
RT @richardhine: "History is not lived but manufactured after the fact. In the aftermath of a national tragedy, we (usually) come together… — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
RT @GrahamStarr: The new NYT columnist should be Adrian Chiles https://t.co/6D4PnrBYdZ — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
@LPDonovan We're calling it "snovid" — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
RT @VeraMBergen: In this week's @TIME, my look into what has become the largest federal investigation in U.S. history. A year later, the… — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
But he's determined to try. https://t.co/M3VMm6SjY9 https://t.co/AUirfokqJP — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Last week, Fanone retired from the force and became a CNN analyst. He doesn't have much hope that those who instigated Jan. 6 will be brought to justice. He fears something like it could happen again. He often feels hopeless about whether he's making a difference. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Fanone came to realize that it was lies that caused Jan. 6, lies he felt a responsibility to combat. His outspokenness helped embolden others, like @SergeantAqGo and @libradunn, to speak out and keep speaking out. https://t.co/qUusCXB4F2 — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Speaking out was therapeutic for Fanone, but he also saw it as a continuation of his service, the same way officers regularly go to court to testify against the criminals they've arrested. Telling the story of what happened is how justice gets done. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
What Fanone made me realize was that the police breakdown and the attempted coup were the same thing. Jan. 6 was a test of which side the police were on: Trump's, or America's? Not all of them passed the test. https://t.co/LEC1WXmARb — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
I wasn’t surprised that Trump tried to overturn the election, summoned his followers to DC or even sicced them on the Capitol, but I was shocked they got in the building. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
I’ve thought a lot about this: Was Jan. 6 an attempted coup or just a police breakdown? If the police had been properly prepared, Jan. 6 would have been just another rally, a day no one remembers. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
When Fanone was cleared to return to work in September, he was assigned to a desk job in a civilian department—for his own protection. When he went to the First District to clear out his old locker, his former brothers-in-arms taunted him: "Suck any liberal dicks lately?" https://t.co/1zDN5bsVgt — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
(They did, at least, denounce @gregkellyusa https://t.co/8x9xD4SHf4) — PolitiTweet.org
National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) @GLFOP
As law enforcement officers, we leave our personal politics at the stationhouse door. @gregkellyusa suggesting that… https://t.co/25ytSitGWa
Molly Ball @mollyesque
The Trump-supporting @glfop union, which often defends police against liberal politicians, has repeatedly refused to denounce the GOP pols who downplay Jan. 6—even as it defends some off-duty officers who participated in the insurrection. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
After he testified before the Jan. 6 Committee, cop forums lit up with right-wing memes calling him a liberal plant. https://t.co/aMG7r31g9A — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
But the hardest thing for Fanone was the response from his fellow cops—the ones he thought he was sticking up for. They called him names behind his back. They stopped returning his calls. Even the detective assigned to investigate his assault talked shit. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
The officers met with the President before the ceremony, and Biden singled Fanone out for praise. He replied, "Why didn't you answer my letter?" Biden chuckled and said, "You're a tough one." — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
“We cannot allow the heroism of these officers to be forgotten,” @potus said that August day. “We have to understand what happened—the honest and unvarnished truth. We have to face it. That’s what great nations do, and we are a great nation.” https://t.co/1xp9T8PJ0t — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
For months, the White House didn't respond to a letter he sent, though @presssec acknowledged it was received. A few days after I started asking why—the day Fanone appeared on the cover of @time—he and his fellow officers were finally honored at a Rose Garden ceremony. https://t.co/mo3aESxZ09 — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Democratic politicians said the right things but didn't necessarily rush to embrace him. The DC mayor's office sent catering, with no note, and eventually honored the MPD responders at a regular municipal employee appreciation day, like high-performing sanitation workers. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
None would meet with him. One of them wouldn’t even shake his hand. https://t.co/ViA7hbgduL — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Fanone believed he was sticking up for his fellow cops. He went to Congress to confront the Republicans trying to whitewash the insurrection, particularly the 21 Reps who voted against medals for the officers who defended them. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
(That @phscoop Post piece from 1/14/21 is, to my mind, an all-time great work of police reporting, one of the best pieces of journalism to come out of Jan. 6. A “first draft of history” that stands the test of time.) — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
He decided to speak up—in the @washingtonpost, a series of network appearances, a conversation with @cnn's @donlemon https://t.co/DKk0W2qyD9 https://t.co/85Xds7Y67Q — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
He'd voted for Trump in 2016 because he was tired of Democrats' anti-police rhetoric. So when he saw commentators questioning the police response to the Capitol, he got pissed and decided to do something. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Fanone didn't have to be there—he voluntarily deployed, wearing his 10-year-old uniform for the first time. He received arguably the most severe non-lethal injuries of any officer that day. But it was what he did next that made him extraordinary. — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
What happened next is well known by now: a Trump-voting redneck cop was beaten nearly to death by rioters brandishing Blue Lives Matter flags and calling him a traitor. https://t.co/3FzJzHiFAL — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
One year ago today, Mike Fanone, a plainclothes narcotics officer with the DC Metropolitan Police Department, reported to work and answered the call to the Capitol. 🧵 — PolitiTweet.org
Molly Ball @mollyesque
RT @AndrewDesiderio: My Jan. 6 experience was very different from that of most other Hill reporters. I was in Georgia covering the Senate r… — PolitiTweet.org
