I wish this wasn’t the story. But it is.
Officer Franz Fulcher. Officer Peter Sheldon. Their names are on the January 6th plaque. They were in that building when the mob came through. They defended the Capitol, defended the members of Congress inside it, and they took the same oath I took.
Now they along with four other officers are charged with stealing $441,000 in fraudulent overtime.
I’ll be straight with you about something. I don’t trust Jeanine Pirro. Hell, I can’t believe a word that comes out of that office on a good day. But I read the indictment. And it’s damning.
So here’s where I have to go, even when I don’t want to.
Accountability doesn’t have a resume attached to it. It doesn’t matter what you did on January 6th. It doesn’t matter that you held the line, that you took hits, that you gave up things most people will never understand to protect people who didn’t even know your name. What the indictment says they did after that has to be answered for. That’s not optional.
People say back the blue no matter what. I hear that. I wore that badge for fifteen years. I know what it means to put on that uniform and walk into situations most people run away from. That experience doesn’t leave you. It shapes how you see everything.
And it’s exactly why I can’t look away from this. Because I know what the badge means. I know what the oath means. And betraying that trust, taking $441,000 in fraudulent overtime while your name is on the plaque that honors the people who defended democracy, that is a betrayal of the oath. Full stop.
This isn’t about tearing down officers. We’re not doing that here. Both these men will have their day in court and they deserve that. The process matters.
But we don’t circle the wagons. That’s the move the other side makes. That’s what Trump does: reward the loyal, protect the connected, look away when the accountability gets inconvenient. We don’t do that. We hold people accountable no matter who they are, no matter what they’ve done, no matter whose side they were on.
That has to mean something. Otherwise it means nothing.
Franz Fulcher and Peter Sheldon held the line on January 6th. I know what that cost. I respect it. And I’m still saying their names in the same breath as accountability because that is what accountability actually requires.
Nobody is above it. Nobody.
— Harry