Durbin Stunned as Police Union Chief Slams DOJ for Ignoring 1,500 Assaulted Officers

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) had a full meltdown Tuesday when Washington, D.C. Police Union chief Gregg Pemberton dared to focus on real-world violence against cops rather than reheated outrage over President Trump’s pardons related to January 6.

At issue? Over 1,500 D.C. police officers have been assaulted since January 6, 2021, and not a single one of their attackers has faced trial because the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney’s Office is simply refusing to prosecute.

Let that sink in.

While Democrats continue to obsess over Trump’s use of presidential pardon powers — powers legally granted under the Constitution Pemberton is trying to get someone, anyone, to care about the skyrocketing attacks on law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

“More than 1,500 officers have been assaulted by people since that day and nothing has happened to those suspects,” Pemberton said during the tense exchange.

Durbin didn’t want to hear it.

Instead of acknowledging the complete collapse of law and order in D.C., Durbin repeatedly grilled Pemberton about how he felt about the January 6 pardons, as though that mattered more than the fact that over a thousand officers have been beaten, spit on, or worse and the DOJ just shrugs.

Pemberton didn’t back down.

• He reminded Durbin that the January 6 cases had already been adjudicated those individuals were charged, tried, convicted, and in many cases served time.

• In contrast, the 1,537 assaults on police since then have not even been prosecuted not because of lack of evidence, but because prosecutors refuse to bring the cases forward.

• The U.S. Attorney’s Office is “no-papering” these assaults legal slang meaning they’re not even filing charges.

“My frustration, Senator, is that no one seems to care about police officers who were assaulted after that day or before that day,” Pemberton said. “It seems like people only care about police officers who were assaulted on that day in the calendar!”

He’s right. And it exposes the stunning hypocrisy of the Left’s sudden “support” for law enforcement only when it fits their political narrative.

If you’re a cop defending your city from anarchists, carjackers, or armed thugs forget it. You're on your own.

But if you’re a cop at the Capitol on January 6, then suddenly you're a hero and your story becomes a talking point for every Democrat committee hearing from now until November.

Let’s be crystal clear every officer assaulted deserves justice whether it happened on January 6 or January 7 or any day after. But the selective outrage from people like Dick Durbin shows exactly what this is: politics, not principle.

Here’s what they don’t want to admit:

• Violent crime is out of control in Democrat-run cities like D.C., where carjackings and assaults have become daily occurrences.

• Police are under siege, not from protestors on one day in 2021, but from a justice system that has decided cops aren’t worth protecting.

• Over 1,500 cases of violence against officers ignored, unprosecuted, buried.

But yeah, let’s talk about pardons.

Durbin’s performance was a disgrace and Gregg Pemberton deserves credit for speaking the truth, even when Washington doesn’t want to hear it.

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