Today in supporting the cops

It must be reassuring for "our great men and women in blue" (as the president puts it) to know that the entire administration, and its pet media, have their backs. Until one of them gets out of line:

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo is being criticized this week after he ripped into Senate Republicans, accusing them of delaying legislation for the benefit of the NRA, this* after one of his officers was killed in the line-of-duty** over the weekend while responding to a domestic abuse call.

... “We all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and Tex*** Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women’s Act is because the NRA (National Rifle Association) doesn’t like the fact we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends,” Acevedo said.

How dare he!

“And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you’re either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts or you’re here for the NRA.”

Acevedo was referring to a bill aimed at helping victims of domestic and sexual violence that has stalled in the Senate due to a provision which ends the “boyfriend loophole” and makes it easier to take away guns from violent offenders, even if they are not a spouse or domestic partner.

Imagine, a police chief criticizing political actors for placing officers in danger. You'd think there was still a black guy in the White House or something. Good thing somebody's criticizing him -- though you'll need to hang on for the 12th graf of a 14-graf story to find out who and how:

Joe Gamaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, said in a letter obtained by KTRK that the chief owes the public an apology for using the tragedy to make a “political statement.”

"The fact that Chief Acevedo chose that moment to make a political statement on guns is nothing short of offensive and inappropriate,” he said in the letter.

Because it's always too soon to make a political statement when there are still thoughts and prayers to offer.

Attention should be focused, properly, on Fox's bizarre attempts to rescue the FBI investigation and stack the deck for the one that's REALLY gonna get 'em. But it's worth logging the occasional observation that even on the little things, Fox takes its orders from a higher master than the journalism gods.

* High-quality editing by the Fair 'n' Balanced Network
** Yep
*** Same