VARGAS, STANDS BY HIS FACEBOOK COMMENTS CALLING OUT POLICE. >> I SAW THAT WITH THE PROTESTERS I WAS WITH THAT WERE PEACEFULLY PROTESTING, THAT IT BECAME VIOLENT, AND IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, WE SAW VIOLENCE WITH OFFICERS. DALAUN: ON FACEBOOK, THAT SENATOR SAID "I WAS MET WITH FLASH GRENADES, PEPPER BULLETS, AND WAS HIT MULTIPLE TIMES," CALLING OFFICERS’ ACTIONS AN INFRIGEMENT OF CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. BUT HE ALSO CONDEMNS SOME OF THE DOWNTOWN PROTESTERS SATURDAY EVENING, CALLING IT "UNWARRANTED VIOLENCE." AND THE POINT IS, WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE BOTH THOSE THINGS. THAT’S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INDIVIDUALS IN MY POSITIONS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE TRUTHS THAT EXIST. DALAUN: THE OMAHA POLICE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION RESPONDED WITH ITS OWN FACEBOOK POST, CALLING VARGAS’ COMMENTS "FALSE, IRRESPONSIBLE, AND DANGEROUS." PRESIDENT, TONY CONNOR, SAYS THE PROTESTS BECAME VIOLENT AND WERE NO LONGER LAWFUL. HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER AND HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE AREA, ONE. OR TWO, HE SHOULD HAVE TRIED TO MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THESE PEOPLE, BUT HE GETS ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE AND HE WANTS TO CRITICIZE THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT SHOWED UP DOWN THERE TRYING TO SAVE THE SMALL BUSINESSES. DALAUN: CONNOR SAYS HIS OFFICERS ARE WORKING HARD TO KEEP THE COMMUNITY SAFE, AND HE BELIEVES VARGAS’ COMMENTS WERE SELF-SERVING. >> I WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT ALLOW SOME TWO BIT POLITICIAN TO STAND ON THE BACK OF ALL POLICE OFFICERS TO TRY TO ELEVATE THEMSELVES. THAT’S UNACCEPTABLE. HE OWES THE OMAHA POLICE OFFICERS AN APOLOGY FOR HIS COMMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. DALAUN: REPORTING IN OMAHA,