Police chief fired for prosecuting mob violence

 I heard about this on TV this week and this is a shame. How can we expect the nation to settle down if you don't want police to do their jobs? And at least the Police Chief of Portsmouth, Virginia was doing her job and enforcing the law sadly the city's leaders took her job away for doing so:

The chief of Portsmouth, Virginia, was fired Monday in what she suggested was a politically motivated move moments before criminal charges were dropped against a prominent state senator and several local Black leaders accused of conspiring to damage a Confederate statue during a protest this year.

The latest twist in the case involving state Sen. Louise Lucas, a high-ranking Democrat who is Virginia's most senior Black legislator, drew praise from members of her own party who condemned the charges. police.

Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe tweeted: "Our hero Louise Lucas and her fellow proud Portsmouth citizens deserve our admiration. Grateful this despicable political persecution is over."

Portsmouth police in August charged Lucas and 18 other plaintiffs, including a school board member and members of the local NAACP chapter and the public defender's office, with conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1,000.

Lucas said in a statement Tuesday that the Portsmouth Police Department "made a mockery of the criminal justice system" by filing "obscure felony charges against me and other Portsmouth citizens and in so doing, they created a scandalous national embarrassment for our city."

So Chief Angela Green does her job in arresting a state senator for breaking the law and they fire her. And the Democrats seen to back the state senator who broke the law. Weird.

h/t Instapundit