Alan Ritchson has a funny way of promoting movies.
The star behind “Reacher” hits the big screen once more Friday with “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” The Guy Ritchie romp, loosely based on true events, casts him as a World War II-era soldier battling the Nazi menace.
This is the perfect time for him to spread the word about the film and coax as many people to see it in theaters.
Instead, he’s spent the last few weeks attacking:
- Christians
- Donald Trump
- Law enforcement
And, now, he’s expanding his target list to include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Previously, Ritchson mocked Christians for supporting a “con man” like President Donald Trump and slammed police during a The Hollywood Reporter interview.
Cops get away with murder all the time, and the fact that we can’t really hold them accountable for their improprieties is disturbing to me. We should completely reform the way that we do it. I mean, you shouldn’t have to spend more time getting an education as a hairstylist than as a cop who’s armed with a deadly weapon. We should make it very hard for people to make mistakes or abuse power in our institutions,”
That drew a heated response from the National Fraternal Order of Police.
While Mr. Ritchson gets his face and forehead powdered on set, our officers are out doing a job he doesn’t have the courage to do.
While he gets to hear loud pops and have blanks fired at him, our officers feel the heat of the bullets as they pierce their skin.
There are no… pic.twitter.com/50CbfGfQ46
— National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) (@GLFOP) April 12, 2024
Ritchson’s “Warfare” opens this Friday, April 19, but he saw fit to fire back at FOP via his Instagram account.
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This kind of emotionally immature response is the epitome of what concerns me about law enforcement today. If this is how leadership handles a peaceful disagreement, what does life look like for those unseen interactions in the street?
How does this shape the character of those police officers looking to management?
Do you really want individuals so easily angered, who bully like school children to have a gun and the protection of an untouchable union?
I don’t.
Then he targeted DeSantis:
To make matters worse, in Florida, voters perpetuate these issues by continuing to support people like Gov. Desantis [sic] who just passed a law making it illegal for anyone other than the police to police themselves. This, lack of transparency would be laughable if not so deadly.
To recap:
An actor whose star is on the rise has a new movie hitting theaters nationwide. Instead of taking a diplomatic approach to interviews and social media, he’s attacked massive groups nationwide.
- Trump fans
- Conservatives
- DeSantis supporters
- Cop supporters
- Christians
The First Amendment gives Ritchson the right to say all of the above, of course. No one suggests he should be prevented from speaking his mind.
Ironically, his fellow liberals loathe said right.
The only difference between the tyrannical censorship of social media dissent by that Brazillian judge and the Biden American censorship machine is that the American courts have, so far, ruled Biden's tyranny tyrannical. I hope the US Supreme Court agrees.
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) April 10, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.
NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
Joe Rogan:
"Whether it's war, suppression of free speech, or mandatory pharmacological interventions. That used to all be associated with the authoritarian right, and now those things are being embraced by the left." pic.twitter.com/kJW1fJxsPT
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 18, 2023
Will his comments negatively impact “Warfare” at the box office? We’ll see.
The film is currently projected to earn just $6 million during its opening frame. That’s a terrible haul for a blockbuster-style action film.
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