Joe Biden receives nearly 200 endorsements from current and former law enforcement officials, as they call Trump ‘lawless’
'It's ironic that a lawless president claims to be the "law and order" president,' Madison, Wisconsin Police Chief Noble Wray says
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Your support makes all the difference.Joe Biden has won the endorsement of nearly 200 current and former law enforcement officials, as they call Donald Trump a "lawless president".
The list, which was announced by the Biden campaign, included former Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as well as dozens of former attorney generals, US attorneys, local police chiefs, and sheriffs.
Former Madison, Wisconsin Police Chief Noble Wray called Mr Trump a "lawless president", according to Fox News.
"It's ironic that a lawless president claims to be the 'law and order' president," Mr Wray said. "We are at a crossroads with this nation, and we need a president that has always prioritised the safety of Americans and their families."
Law enforcement and policing has become a major campaign issue for both candidates following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Mr Trump has pivoted his message in recent months by calling himself a "law and order" president amid the protests erupting across the country in response to police shootings. To swing voters his way, the president has claimed that more riots and looting would occur if Mr Biden were to win in November.
He went on to receive an endorsement from the National Association of Police Organisations (NAPO) and the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), which is New York City's police union, for his pro-policing rhetoric.
Previously, the NAPO endorsed the Obama-Biden campaign in 2008 and 2012 and did not endorse any candidate in 2016.
"My agenda is anti-crime and pro-cop all the way, and that's what it's got to be," Mr Trump in August after the PBA endorsement.
Mr Biden has attempted to also bring in voters by condemning the rioting, violence, and looting occurring in some American cities, all while supporting the protesters reacting to police shootings.
He's also has reminded the public that these instances have all happened in "Trump's America" while slamming Mr Trump's rhetoric for "stoking the violence".
"He has condemned violence of all kinds, and there is no question that I would feel safe in Joe Biden's America," Tom Manger, a former police chief in Montgomery County, Maryland, said in a statement distributed by the Biden campaign.
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