Ron DeSantis says police recruitment bonuses target ‘mistreated’ cops, not just the unvaxxed

‘It’s for officers period. It has nothing to do with their vaccination status.

In Venice Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the case for bringing “mistreated” cops to Florida, stressing he intends his recruitment push to target more than just police officers who don’t want COVID-19 shots.

He wants officers who are disgruntled for a variety of reasons, he said, including an inability to “take that environment” in places like New York, Seattle, and Minneapolis, flash points in last year’s street protests in the wake of the George Floyd murder.

“We are 100% excited about saying that anyone that’s being mistreated, if the morale is low, if you can’t take that environment, and we have openings here, you’re going to get an environment where people are going to support you,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis elaborated on his proposal to pay police officers from other states $5,000 to come to Florida, first rolled out in September.

Contrary to reporting in recent days, he stressed he wasn’t just recruiting cops who refused COVID-19 vaccinations as conditions of employment.