Well, isn’t that a plot twist straight out of the Washington swamp’s greatest hits album? The FBI—our elite, apolitical investigative body—apparently took a moment back in 2020 to kneel in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters.
That’s right, FBI agents, deployed to protect federal buildings and maintain order in D.C., decided to join the protest, drop to one knee, and signal… well, whatever it is BLM was signaling that week. Now, fast-forward a few years and those same agents have found themselves quietly nudged into less-than-glamorous posts. Coincidence? The FBI would never say. But anyone with a working brain and a moderate sense of smell can detect the familiar scent of bureaucratic course correction.
Let’s be real: kneeling in uniform while on duty—particularly during an assignment meant to safeguard federal property from demonstrators who, let’s not forget, were busy turning American cities into charred wreckage—isn’t exactly a masterclass in professional neutrality. This wasn’t some lunchtime expression of free speech.
These were armed federal agents taking a knee during a mass demonstration known more for Molotov cocktails than meaningful dialogue. And sure, they claimed it was a de-escalation tactic. Right. Because nothing screams “we’ve got this under control” like dropping your tactical posture and striking a pose straight out of a Twitter virtue signaler’s playbook.
🚨 #BREAKING: The FBI agents who kneeled with Black Lives Matter terrorists in 2020 have been REMOVED from their positions, per CNN
YES! FINALLY! 🔥
Wokeism is being WIPED from the FBI, thanks to Dan and Kash 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/SHfoEqlfTC
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 30, 2025
What happened next? Oh, just some polite internal ostracism. You know, water cooler conversations that got a little chillier. The kind of thing you’d expect when your coworkers start wondering whether you’re there to uphold the law or push a hashtag. These agents weren’t disciplined in the traditional sense—not back then, anyway. Leadership at the time tiptoed around it, likely terrified of the media meltdown that would follow any action deemed “insensitive” during the Summer of Unrest.
But the message from inside the Hoover Building is a bit clearer now, and it echoes something that former President Trump warned us about repeatedly: politicization in our institutions is a real and present danger. When Trump vowed to clean house and remove the woke rot that had seeped into the ranks of law enforcement, this is exactly the kind of situation he was talking about.
A federal agency appearing to take a side—during civil unrest, no less—is exactly how you destroy public trust. And now that there’s some internal housekeeping happening, the beltway class acts surprised?
Of course, the FBI won’t come out and say, “Yes, we’re correcting a misstep from 2020.” No, they’re sticking to the bureaucratic boilerplate: no comment on personnel matters. Which is code for: we don’t want to have this conversation in public because it makes us look bad. Legal experts are already preening about whether these reassignments could be challenged in court—because, of course, if you flinch at the altar of progressive orthodoxy, someone somewhere will find a civil rights argument to throw at it.
The truth is, these reassignments are long overdue. Americans remember 2020. They remember the cities on fire, the storefronts shattered, the police precincts under siege. And they remember the uncomfortable image of law enforcement officers—people they count on to stand between order and chaos—bowing, quite literally, to the chaos. That moment wasn’t a kumbaya—it was a line-crossing event that undermined the credibility of federal law enforcement in the eyes of millions.
So maybe it’s not a demotion. Maybe it’s a gentle nudge from an agency realizing, a little too late, that when you mix politics with policing, you don’t get justice—you get a mess. And judging by the current state of things, they’ve got enough messes already. Time to focus less on optics and more on the oath.
