Texas Police Department Rejects Gift
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Texas Police Department Rejects Gift
Patriot Mobile asked Tuesday that the Grapevine Police Department donate the $1,500 gift to another department in North Texas. "If Grapevine continues to reject the donation, Patriot Mobile will request that it be transferred to another police department in North Texas," the company said in a news release Tuesday.
On Thursday, Patriot Mobile presented a Cane Rosso restaurant gift card to the Grapevine Police Department (GPD) in gratitude for their service to the community. "The Patriot Mobile team was lucky enough to visit the Grapevine Police Department to give them a pizza party gift card to Cane Rosso! It was wonderful to meet our local police officers. We are so grateful for the work our police do
doing every day to keep us safe in our community," Patriot Mobile wrote on social media. "At Patriot Mobile, we will always support our law enforcement officers!" he continued, adding the hashtag #backtheblue. The company said it bought the $1,500 restaurant gift card at a recent fundraiser to benefit fallen soldiers, adding that it paid $2,575 during an auction at the event.
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Gpd Reconsiders Gift
Patriot Mobile's intent in purchasing the gift certificate at an auction benefiting the families of fallen soldiers was to honor our law enforcement officers," Patriot Mobile said in the statement. Later that day, police expressed their gratitude in a separate social media post. "Thanks to our friends at Patriot Mobile," GPD wrote.
We are blessed to have your support and encouragement. Today we received a certificate to host a pizza party for our employees. We are grateful for the opportunity to have a fun and relaxing meal together as a team." "The unexpected and very nice thank you was a pleasant surprise," Leigh Wambsganns, director of communications for Patriot Mobile, told The Epoch Times in an interview.
But soon after the social media post, police began receiving backlash for accepting a gift from the cellphone service provider, which describes itself as a conservative Christian company. In a radical reversal, GPD deleted its original Facebook post thanking Patriot Mobile and returned to social media.
The department's original Twitter post was still active at the time of this post. This time, in a lengthy post, GPD retracted its acceptance of the gift. "One of the things we appreciate most about our community is their willingness to speak up and voice their concerns, even when doing so can be difficult. Our community deserves to be heard and we want you to know that we are listening
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Gpd Reconsiders Gift
, the GPD wrote on Saturday. "This week we accepted a food donation from a local business, as we often do, and posted a thank you on social media. This is not uncommon, because our community is very generous and we want to acknowledge and thank you. In this case
but the donation generates deep emotions,” the post said. "One of our values, dignity, ensures that we recognize the inherent worth of all people and compels us to act toward them in a way that conveys our understanding of that truth. It is respectful to EVERYONE. The relationships
that we have and desire with members of our community are critical to building trust and legitimacy. GPD said it did not intend to create "mistrust" in the community when it first accepted the gift of Patriot Mobile. Please know that our actions were not intended to create mistrust, and we promise to do better in the future. We will reevaluate how we receive donations in the future, and we will remain open and transparent in how we do so," the post continued.
Regarding donations and in the spirit of sharing what we have for others, we choose to donate food to a real need. We want something positive to come out of the experience and that means giving to a worthy cause. The post is concluded by thanking those who spoke about the donation, adding that the department is working to change the way it operates. "We thank everyone who took the time to express their thoughts, and we say
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Outcry; Not Unexpected
We also thank them for giving us a day to reflect on the situation. Today we are not just giving you words, we are working to make a lasting change in the way we operate so that we can move forward together. We recognize that we are members of a large community.
We will always strive to protect everyone in our community and remain committed to providing the highest quality police service," the post read. The company said the protest against them by some in the community and others across the country was not unexpected. "The response from the extreme left is not surprising to us, nor is it anything new. We are honored to serve as a conservative Christian company. Our mission is to uphold our God-given constitutional rights," said Patriot Mobile CEO Glenn
Story in a statement. "We have been called Christian nationalists by those who want to silence us, break us, stop us, but we embrace the term Christian nationalist. We love our country and we love the Lord and we try to shine light in the darkness
are. Patriot Mobile said it was disappointed with the announcement that the police department made the decision to reject the donation. "The irony in his [GPD's] follow-up statement is that it was obviously political," Wambsganns said . "I don't know who wrote the statement, but I do know that it doesn't represent the opinion of all the police officers in that department. Nor does it represent all the citizens of Grapevine. Wambsganns said the company's appreciation
Outcry; Not Unexpected
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