The United States, after coming under attack on 9/11, reacted with a sense of unity, two former New York Police Department detectives told Newsmax on Saturday.
“As a nation, we all came together,” Dr. Darrin Porcher, appearing on “Wake Up America Weekend” with fellow former detective Dr. Oscar Odom, said. “It wasn’t just Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani and the police commissioner at the time. It was George Bush who was the president. We all came together in unison. No matter what the political party was, we were Americans standing in the wake of terror. And we looked the lion in the face and said, we are not scared.”
Porcher recalled being in the NYPD Police Academy, where he was an instructor, when the planes struck the World Trade Center.
Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
