The Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies were punished over their “failure to act” at the rally in Fayetteville, N.C.

Source: Five deputies who escorted sucker-punched protester at Trump rally have been disciplined – The Washington Post

A suspension is good. Being fired immediately would have been more appropriate though. Don’t do your job? Get fired, face charges for wasting tax-payer resources and lose your pension. Simple. No other job on the planet would continue to pay you when you are not performing your duties.

An officer who takes tax-payer money in the form of his or her uniform, gun, badge, car, and paycheck and then does live up to their end of the deal has committed fraud and should be prosecuted for it.