During National Police Week in May, Congresswoman Kristen McDonald Rivet held a press conference to profess her support for the Boys in Blue.

“Our brave men and women in uniform put their lives on the line to protect and serve our community,” she said. “I’m very proud to stand with them … like I have my entire career.”

But when McDonald Rivet had the opportunity to express gratitude for law enforcement officers dealing with violent anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in Los Angeles, the Bay City Democrat voted nay.

And she didn’t bother to explain why on social media, or through official press statements.

House Resolution 516 outlined how the LA “protests quickly escalated into violent riots across Los Angeles, where acts of arson, widespread looting, property destruction, and vandalism were committed, blocking streets and highways, lighting streets on fire, throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles, and assaulting Federal and local peace officers.”

Rioters have “shot commercial grade fireworks and thrown Molotov cocktails at Los Angeles Police Department officers and assaulted federal agents” while others “burned American flags, an act that disrespects the nation that protects their freedom,” the resolution read.

All Republicans and seven Democrats voted in favor of the resolution to express “gratitude to law enforcement officers, including the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and other local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies, including the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement for keeping our communities safe in the face of danger,” according to Fox News.

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McDonald Rivet’s decision to go against law enforcement did not go unnoticed.

“Radical Kristen McDonald Rivet can’t bring herself to condemn violence and stand with the law enforcement officers risking their lives to defend our communities,” Zach Bannon, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement. “McDonald Rivet’s out of touch vote proves once again she cares more about appeasing the radical fringe than the safety of Americans.”

McDonald Rivet was elected to replace the retiring Rep. Dan Kildee 230 days ago, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has yet to call for a special election to select her replacement in the state’s 35th Senate District.

While McDonald Rivet regularly professes support for law enforcement, she has a documented history of support from groups that want to defund the police.

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That includes $21,000 in campaign contributions from the George Soros-affiliated PAC for America’s Future that promotes the Defund the Police movement.

She’s also received endorsements from Reproductive Freedom for All, formally known as NARAL, which “supports the demands of the Movement for Black Lives, including defunding the police and investing in Black communities, which are a response to hundreds of years of systemic oppression and the failure of reforms to address urgent needs and injustices.”

Amid the George Floyd protests in 2020, McDonald Rivet blasted police as a “structure put in place to oppress” in a Facebook post on June 3 highlighting a protest in Bay City.

“It can’t be fixed with … small gestures,” she wrote. “We need an overhaul now. Demand Action. Vote. Silence is betrayal.”

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Bannon was quick to point out her hypocrisy as McDonald Rivet made a spectacle of her support during National Police Week in May.

“Kristen McDonald Rivet didn’t just stand by while radicals attacked law enforcement; she cashed their checks, promoted their platforms, and echoed their dangerous rhetoric,” Bannon said at the time. “McDonald Rivet’s desperate attempt to spin her defund-the-police record is a slap in the face to the brave men and women in blue.”

McDonald Rivet’s competition for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District last year offered a similar take on her anti-police Facebook comments.

“To say the policing system is put in place to oppress is offensive,” Republican Paul Junge told the New York Post. “They’re there to protect people, and Kristen just doesn’t seem to get it.”