Val Demings, a top candidate to be Joe Biden's running mate, is a former cop. What?

i dont know anything about that

Her political career seems solid as to the issues she supports, but her police career could sideline her and Biden would do well to take that into serious consideration in today's charged atmosphere:

" Demings was appointed as Chief of the Orlando Police Department in 2007, becoming the first woman to lead the department.^[10]

According to a 2015 article in The Atlantic, the Orlando Police Department "has a long record of excessive-force allegations, and a lack of transparency on the subject, dating back at least as far as Demings's time as chief."^[11] A 2008 Orlando Weekly exposé described the Orlando Police Department as "a place where rogue cops operate with impunity, and there's nothing anybody who finds himself at the wrong end of their short fuse can do about it."^[12] Demings responded with an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel, arguing that "Looking for a negative story in a police department is like looking for a prayer at church" and added that "It won't take long to find one." In the same op-ed, she cast doubt on video evidence that conflicts with officers' statements in excessive force cases, writing, "a few seconds (even of video) rarely capture the entire set of circumstances."^{[11]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Demings}

 

  Do you believe that Joe Biden‘s first priority and/or top criteria for selecting a running mate is that person’s competence, or that person’s gender and ethnicity?

 

I'm sure that will put a bee in somebody's bonnet.