‘We have the most compassionate cops in the world’

By Alex P. Vidal

 

“If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.”—John Layfield

 

US President Donald Trump’s No. 1 supporter in the New York City Filipino community has nixed calls to defund the police, defending the New York Police Department (NYPD) as “the most compassionate cops in the world.”

If the groups that agitate to defund the NYPD will compare the Big Apple law enforcement agency to other police in the world, “our cops in New York City will look like saints,” thundered Luis Lomuntad, 65, holder of official “Trump 2020 gold card.”

Lomuntad’s defense of the NYPD came after he “learned” that his two kids—a 14-year-old and an 18-year-old— “have been brainwashed” in school allegedly to hate the cops and the government.

He blamed the teachers in New York’s school system who are mostly “biased for the Democrats” and are allegedly teaching the children to hate the government of President Trump.

“Look what they (teachers) did. They incorporated the ‘Black Lives Matter’ in the school curriculum which is about police brutality and has nothing to do with the history of this nation,” bewailed Lomuntad, a former sailor who now works in the Staten Island Ferry in Lower Manhattan.

Lomuntad said five years before he was sworn in as American citizen, “I studied the political history of the United States and found out that this country is going down under the Democratic leaders.”

 

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The teachers, whom he did not name, who allegedly mostly had “radical orientation”, were hired during the Obama administration. He didn’t show any proof.

“Black Lives Matter” is a decentralized political and social movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience in protest against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.

Tondo, Manila-born Lomuntad said most of those defended and “sensationalized” by the “Black Lives Matter” movement were criminals and rioters.

“I don’t want my children to be poisoned,” he protested. “I also don’t want my children to believe what they have been hearing in school that (President Donald) Trump is a racist.”

Lomuntad, who nearly came to blows with a Persian-looking anti-Trump immigrant in an accidental confrontation on Broadway Street in Elmhurst neighborhood at around 9 o’clock in the evening on September 28, also defended Mr. Trump from accusations he was responsible for the death in the pandemic of more than 200,000 Americans.

“If they will use their common sense, it was COVID-19 that killed those 200,000 people, not President Trump,” he stressed. “They (critics of Mr. Trump) should not believe in those fake news.”

Lomuntad, Mr. Trump’s most vocal supporter in the Pinoy crowd in Elmhurst, blamed the media here which is 90 percent being controlled, he said, by the liberal democrats.

As of May 2020, Gallup polling found that 31 percent of Americans identified as Democrats, 25 percent identified as Republicans, and 40 percent as Independent.

 

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The unidentified anti-Trump immigrant, meanwhile, interrupted Lomuntad: “I don’t like Trump. He is a bully and a racist. Imagine he paid only $750 in his income tax.”

Lomuntad hit back loudly: “What do you know about his income tax? That’s none of your business. Income tax returns are private matters. If President Trump did not pay his taxes the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) would have ran after him. Look at Al Capone. He was nailed down because of his income tax. That’s why they (enemies of Mr. Trump) want to make the voters ignorant.”

The anti-Trump immigrant stepped up his verbal snipe: “Only the white people like Trump. In our place out of 22 white people, 21 of them like him. He doesn’t care about us; he doesn’t care about you and me, with our race. You (pointing to Lomuntad) aren’t white but you like him? O c’mon.”

He then moved nearer to Lomuntad and barked, “If I see Trump here I will kill him.”

Irked, Lomuntad blasted the anti-Trump immigrant: “That’s a grave threat.”  The angry immigrant left.

 

(The author, who is now based in New York City, used to be the editor of two dailies in Iloilo)