Edward Kimmel from Takoma Park, MD via Wikimedia Commons

Rochester, New York police officers are being allowed to cover their name tags to mitigate the threat of violence from anarchists.

Rioters confronting police in the city were using the personally identifiable information on their uniforms to find out where they live, their children’s names, where their children go to school, and even their parents’ phone numbers. 

Many called in front of law enforcement to taunt their loved ones. 

The Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo reports:

“The past couple of months officers names have been researched by protesters to put personal information out to the public, putting the safety of their families in jeopardy,” said a statement from RPD Chief La’Ron Singletary, who announced his resignation earlier this week.

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WHAM 1180 similarly reported Thursday on the actions from the protesters, noting that “Deputy Chief Morabito says he has seen this (harassment) happen in real time”:

City Council members questioning why Rochester Police Officers covered their names and sometimes badge numbers at the series of nightly protests were told it was for the officer’s protection.

Chief Singletary says protesters are Googling officer names and spreading information about them and their families on social media. Deputy Chief Morabito says he has seen this happen in real time, with protesters calling family members of officers right in front of them and threatening to come to their homes. He says he personally gave his officers permission to cover their name tags.

Violent protests erupted in the wake of the death of Daniel Prude. Prude succumbed about one week after losing consciousness while members of the Rochester Police Department attempted to restrain him.

WXXI News obtained a copy of the autopsy report, which stated that Prude’s death resulted from “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint due to excited delirium due to acute phencyclidine intoxication.” Thus indicating he may have been high on PCP when officers place a spit hood over him to protect themselves from being spit on or bitten. 

At that point, Prude had already smashed multiple storefront windows and ranted about being infected with the coronavirus.

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Comments

        1. I don’t like republicans because they don’t fight back enough. I don’t like democrats because they are nasty, crooked, stupid, disgusting and anything else can think of.

  1. This is enough! These officers needs to be able to start shooting these murderers and stop this crap right now! Or send them to those democrat fools that pretend to be leaders!

    1. Unfortunately I agree with you Patricia. They will have to see a few bodies of their own to back off. Most are bused in from other towns. If they know that they can be shot, they’ll back down. However, this should have happened on DAY TWO IN PORTLAND. Would have stopped a lot of this crap and saved a lot of business owners and their investments in these town/cities.

    2. Patricia,
      Agreed! send a few (or many) to take a “dirt nap”, and perhaps the “survivors” will wise up, and see that those soros/dnc/ gay fraud obama’s ofa/ clinton crime cartel $$$$$$$$$$$$ are not worth dying for, and will skulk back to their parent’s basement “safe space”, video games, coloring books, crayons, hot cocoa, and resume screaming at their “moon god” again.

  2. These thugs are evil and vile human beings that need to be outed for who they are. They are losers and want everyone that has a life to suffer along with them. Bullies of the maximum sort but only in a crowd otherwise complete cowards.

    1. In my opinion, everyone of these looser, scum bags, that were supposedly murdered by police folks, actually committed suicide. They did it by not following the commands of the officers, and resisting arrest.

      1. The black thugs are good at getting themselves shot because they cannot grasp the concept of obeying a police officer’s order to stop running OR stop resisting!!!
        But it’s the aftermath by young white phony “sympathizers” who cause the most damage.
        George Soros is laughing!!!!!

    2. I want to see who their parents are!!!
      Who spawned these self-Entitled, self-Righteous, white punk anarchists?????
      Show us their baby boomer parents (or grandparents)!!!!!!!!

  3. It’s about time. They must be able to protect themselves from these terrorists and I’m so glad that they are doing it.

    OUR WORLD HAS GONE INSANE AND IT MUST STOP NOW BEFORE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY IS DESTROYED IN THE MEAN TIME.LAW AND ORDER MUST PREVAIL!

  4. I think it needs to go MUCH farther than simply covering name tags and badge numbers. If one of these thugs stand in front of a police officer (NOT “cop”) they need to be shot in the face! No second chance, no “you’re under arrest”, DEAD! Moreover, ANYONE who threatens a police officer’s family, ESPECIALLY children, needs to be taken out with extreme prejudice. These officers are doing a job (a tough one at that) and do not deserve to be terrorized simply because of the job they do.

  5. Forget PRUDE….He is History by now and the BLM AND ANTIFA Thuggery and absolute LAWLESSNESS is in full swing and MUST be stopped. Use the force that works, and stop being kind to the thugs who are heartless in their attacks.

    1. Yeah and my guess their are a few other filthy rich adding to the chaos. gates, bloomberg, and so many others who have nothing BUT POWER in mind. Add the NWO and it will be real chaos for who will be in power. The rats will be puppets.

  6. Most that died and caused (bs they claim is the reason) this all have committed a crime or had warrants, 1 was for sexual crimes, and they all fought the police, and most were doing drugs. If they would just say ok and go with the flow they would not be dead now, but no they have to fight thinking police will give up and let they go as Dems want if they run just let them, unless they attack and burn or destroy a Democrats house/business then they want an army outside to protect them. Screw all of Geo Soros and DNC crew, good to see them hurting

  7. If we just use our laws and enforce them they will go away especially under federal law ,10 years stopped the monument problems and if we put them away in a military camp for 10 years for education about the freedoms they gave up for rioting then it will stop!
    All those little rich kid drones will be incarcerated for their democratic beliefs of tear down and burn will now have to break rocks to start rebuilding buildings damaged!
    Do the crime must do the punishment!!!!!

  8. The Democrats are directly responsible for allowing these thugs to riot. Maybe these cities will realize that Democrats really don’t care about Americans or America. How can they if the Democrats support the murder, butchering of innocent babies. Democrats support the selling of aborted babies parts. Democrats are possessed by evil spirits. If Biden gets elected, no guns, no church no freedom from oppression.

  9. The cops must be ‘allowed to go to town’ on this scum…where’s ‘the famous police brutality’ we keep hearing about?

  10. Boy is that ever a stupid headline! Covering one’s name tag is “unleashing” them?Shoot the rioting b#$%ds, THAT’D be unleashing the cops!

  11. At some point the democrat party is going to have to condemn the actions of these thugs even though they are the darlings of the left wing of their party,the democrats have clearly shown that they put party politics far ahead of public safety and as long as its party lefty’s doing the burning and looting its OK with them..

  12. Put me In Charge after all they were deemed Terrorist I would round up the most active to start and off to Guantanamo (GITMO) let the others see this is their end and seeing they were labeled Terrorist our laws are Null and Void tickets out of jail!

  13. EVERYTHING ITS HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY ITS THE COMMUNIST CRIMINALS DEMONCRATS TO BLAME FOR THEY ARE FUNDING THIS TERORIST WITH OUR TAX PAYIERS MONEY AND GIVE THEM MUNITION AND THEY PAY THEIR TRAVEL FOOD AND HOTELS THATS Y COMMUNIST CROOK PALOCI WANT MORE MONEY IS TO SUPPORT THIS CRIMINALS TERORIST IN OUR COUNTRY AND THE COMMUNIST DEMONCRATS DO NOT WANT US AMERICANS TO GIVE US THE SECOND STIMULUS CHECK OR THE UNANPLOYMENT THIS WAY THEY ARE TAKING EVERYTHING FROM US AMERINAS CITIZANS AND GIVE TO GANGSTERS AND ANTIFA BLM nd others to destroy our country

  14. Sounds good coach, u radical,liberal,domestic terrorists, take them dam masks off, so we can see the faces of what cowards u are, then we can even the odds, and kick some ass. U seem like a bunch of chickenshits how u mob one, or a few people, out number them 20 to one, real tough then, not so when odds are even,u run like the cowards u are. What goes aroud,comes around,watc your backs.

  15. It would not be right to burden the police with guilt of shooting someone. A leaky fire hydrant and a live wire. Then add violent protesters that follow their into the puddle like lemmings.

  16. The fact that each and every “hero martyr” the leftists chose to riot, burn, and destroy in their “peaceful protests” was a lifelong violent criminal who died either while resisting arrest, attacking police or from drug overdoses tells you everything you need to know.

  17. Past democracies have never lasted long. They have wasted, exhausted, and murdered themselves. People start to make too many demands on government. Instead of taking advantage of their opportunities people expect the government to care of everything in their lives from cradle to grave. This is the first step to setting up a dictatorial State where the government becomes the master of all.

  18. Start shouting these commie rioters right between the eyes. Why are we being so damn soft? Kill those wild animals.

  19. The more you pader to them and kiss their butts the more they are going to do these awful things. So this is ”Black COWARDS”.

  20. I support the idea of cops not being required to show their names, because the possibility of doxing and retribution to their families is great. However, they should be assigned some kind of ID number that they are required to wear, so that any overzealous cops can be identified and and corrective action taken if they abuse their authority.

    Antifa members are hard to identify because they dress alike and wear masks. This anonymity gives them greater leave to misbehave. Cops are more disciplined and held to a higher standard, but they are human, too.

  21. Not a SINGLE one of the dead black men was innocent. They don’t even claim the black women who was killed in a NO KNOCK RAID, was innocent. So when you deal with police, IF you refuse to obey their orders, no matter what you think, YOU ARE ASKING FOR TROUBLE.
    The guy who raced around the car to get a KNIFE, could easily have gotten a gun and pointed it backwards and shot the cop. He WAS JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING HIM. And this includes Freddie Grey who actually killed himself.

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