Love Gav, but this incessant pandering to the police has at no point in time ever helped you. I'm not saying be anticop, but all that police support has done nothing but landed John and Max in jail, while the ANTIFA pussies got away. What we've seen police back off from the mob, but arrest little old ladies trying to open their hair salon.
My gym is run by a retired cop, I train with them weekly, and they're good people, but no matter my friendship will I ever be cut slack when it's a toss up between them doing their job or cutting me slack and potentially losing the pension and college fund for their kids. Until ProudBoys are known more for working food lines and helping homeless shelters than fighting and drinking all of your love for the PD, will be one sided.
Lastly your part on I, Pencil, another take on it was also done by Libertarian Economist Milton Friedman.
I've got a lot of friends who are cops, and some family as well. I'm not anti cop, i said that expressly, and they do get a raw deal, but their boss determines their next pay raise or if they get fired and lose their pension. And when it is between doing what their boss says and your friendship you're assed out.
All you need to do is look at the PBs in jail and the ANTIFA who walked. All this praise and backing the blue will not save you when your governor demands your firearms be taken, because they're just following orders. You want another example, we all praised the St. Louis couple for defending their property against BLM, and because of a Soros DA, the police "just following orders" raided their home and took their guns.
Not really fair to assume just because he's your friend you deserve some sort of get-out-of-jail free card. If he walks into your work and says "aww come on man, I can't get a 50% discount? I know you're not the boss but you're just going to follow orders?" Do you take a stand and quit your job the first time your boss asks you to do something you don't agree with? Is it THAT easy to find a new career when you have a mortgage and kids? World doesn't work like that.