An Antioch police officer is under Department of Justice scrutiny for punching a woman who bit him during a homeless sweep, while across the country criminals posing as cops shot a father for $49,000—showing exactly how the establishment press demonizes real law enforcement while actual lawlessness thrives.
The left’s relentless anti-police crusade has created a twisted double standard: real officers are instantly investigated and second-guessed by media-anointed experts for reacting to assault, while violent predators freely exploit the public's conditioned obedience to police lights to commit attempted murder.
The Mercury News reported that on July 1, Antioch officers were overseeing a cleanup of a homeless encampment near the BNSF railway tracks. Ja’Marlette Hardy, 41, confronted the cleanup crew and refused repeated verbal commands to move away. When officers moved to arrest her for interfering, Hardy bit one of them on the shoulder. The bitten officer then punched her in the head.
Instead of focusing on the fact that an officer was bitten while trying to keep the peace, the Mercury News turned to a former San Jose detective to lecture the cop on de-escalation. Analyst Michael Leininger admitted that being bitten provokes anger—“I’ve been bit before, and you do get anger, you definitely do”—but insisted the officer should have contained his temper. Leininger even blamed the city for the incident, arguing officials “herded them like cattle” and failed to provide mental health professionals to manage the encampment. Now the officer is on paid administrative leave, facing a use-of-force review, an independent investigator, and scrutiny from the DOJ’s consultant.
Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are dealing with the real consequences of the anti-police climate. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that on March 28, Joel Perez Rodriguez was driving his wife and 4-year-old son on the Pennsylvania Turnpike with $49,000 his sister had given him for his tobacco business. When they saw red-and-blue emergency lights in their rearview mirror, they did what law-abiding citizens do: they pulled over.
But the men approaching the car weren't police. They were criminals hired by Rodriguez’s sister’s uncle to rob him. The fake cops—Roberto Morel, Tuften Green, and Terrell Adams—had texted about adding emergency lights to their Chevy Suburban before tailing the family. During the botched robbery, Rodriguez was shot in the chest, while other bullets narrowly missed his wife and child. The men were held for trial on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges.
The establishment press wrings its hands over a cop’s “distraction strike” on a biter, dragging an officer through the DOJ mud, while criminals weaponize police imagery to ambush families on the highway. When the media and the federal government treat real cops as the enemy, they erode the public’s trust in legitimate authority, leaving citizens vulnerable to predators who exploit that distrust.
If the anti-police establishment gets its way, the only people willing to do the job will be those willing to be bitten without reacting, and the only people using sirens on the highway will be the robbers.
