Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities should be made public. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled in February that they can be identified and that they haven’t shown that public release of their names violates their right to privacy. The state supreme court denied reconsideration earlier this month and lawyers for the four officers submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that the names remain protected during their legal challenge.

Four officers who attended events in the nation’s capital on the day of an insurrection claimed they are protected under the state’s public records law. They say they did nothing wrong and that revealing their names would violate their privacy.

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      They are proud but they work in one of those most liberal cities in america. They know they are incredibly outnumbered.

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        No they’re not, the city has a large number of Republicans running things. People don’t realize how conservative even a liberal place can be. They’re just quietly fucking things up behind the scenes.

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      Sure seems like they they know they did something wrong if they dont want anybody to know about it

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        They can never get their stories right about anything. First, it was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI working with BLM and “antifa” and no magats were there. Then, you had Marjorie Trailer Queen crying over a fake installation of them in prison and they were declaring they were “political prisoners” because it was just a “day of love”, etc…

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          That’s the thing, they don’t have to get their stories “right” about anything. The blatant hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. It’s a complete waste of time to focus on it.

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        That certainly is the logic they use when they cruise around with Stingray devices in their cruisers that honeypot/MiTM every single 4g/5g/Wifi drevice in a 100m+ radius.

        iF yOu hAvE nOThInG to HiDE yOU HavE nOtHInG toO WoRRy abOUt

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        No. They didn’t think they did anything wrong. It’s insane, but I’m serious. They are absolutely convinced they are the good guys.

        Which is why they believe they don’t deserve to have any consequences. But the evil left will “cancel” them if they’re doxxed, and that’s just not fair since they were doing the “good” things.