
Matthew Leslie
By the time you read this post I can only hope that the Fullerton Police Department Public Information Officer will have had the wisdom to remove a video Tweeted yesterday from the FPD’s PIO Twitter account depicting FPD’s Bicycle Team riding the trails and interacting with people without a mask in sight. The short clip begins with a (we hope) mock heroic pose on the flagstone steps in Hillcrest Park before cutting a montage of the uniformed cyclist officers riding three abreast on a trail, leaving scant room for any other riders, pedestrians, runners, or equestrians, but that isn’t the troubling part of the video.
During the middle of a pandemic when the city, county, and state are urging everyone to help stop the spread of the coronavirus by wearing a face covering and practicing social distancing of six feet from anyone not in our households, Fullerton’s bicycle mounted officers are shown riding city trails and interacting with people with no social distancing and without any sort of face coverings at all.

At one point, one of the maskless officers actually dismounts and approaches a baby in a stroller, handing the child something from less than two feet away! Are they unaware that nearly a thousand OC residents have died, so far, from COVID-19?? What in the world is the FPD thinking releasing this video? Already reluctant to enforce the statewide mask order, is Fullerton’s Police Department now actively signaling to people not to wear face coverings? Because that’s what it looks like.
If your so afraid of Covid stay in your basement. Let those who want to live their lives do so.
I know, I know the masks are to protect others and I’m selfish.
Some of us will use common sense and our eyes to see the truth. You can believe what the government tells you, remember “ if you like your insurance you can keep it”.
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Do you know when this video was taken? It could be an old video recently posted.
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That’s my guess. I certainly hope so, anyway, but it’s still irresponsible to leave it up, and Ahmad Zahra actually highlighted it on Facebook with no mention of them not wearing masks.
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OMG Karen, this is third grade reporting at best. Ride a bike with a mask and lets see how you do. Your time would be better used looking into the corruption and waste at city hall. How about the sales tax proposed, that will further hurt fullerton businesses, or the homeless and their accompanying issues (mental and drugs). These issues threaten to topple the city government, and all our city leaders do is throw money at non-profits which fixes nothing. This pointless virtue signaling does no good, and in FACT a big part of the problem.
Grow the hell up, wake up and stop this pointless BS.
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This post is not pointless virtue signaling. There is a serious problem with people refusing to wear masks to stop or slow down the spread of the virus. Masks to filter out urban pollution and dirt have been produced for the cycling industry for many years—way before COVID. If cops can’t ride a bicycle while wearing a mask, then perhaps this is not the best duty for their skill set.
Everyone is convinced that there is corruption at city hall, but no one seems like they want to document it. Send me a lead, would you?
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Look at these great cops not killing someone.
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