EAllusion wrote:Outside of his RNC convention speech, this was the most overtly malevolent speech from Trump I've heard.
And the laughter and wild cheering he got from the police in attendance when he implored police brutality tells you it's more than just a few bad apples in police departments when it comes to acceptance of improper use of force.
Unfortunately this is reinforced by a helluvalot of movies and television.
When things look overwhelming negative to Trump, perhaps he will have his own version of the Reichstag fire to cement his control of the government. The twin enemies of the state, Fake News and Bad Hombres will be rounded up for deportation. Trump already has the support of most of the Generals and Admirals, plus Putin.
Washington Post wrote:Police leaders across the country moved quickly to distance themselves from — or to outright condemn — President Trump’s statements about “roughing up” people who’ve been arrested.
The swift public denunciations came as departments are under intense pressure to stamp out brutality and excessive force that can erode the relationship between officers and the people they police — and cost police chiefs their jobs.
Some police leaders worried that three sentences uttered by the president during a Long Island, N.Y., speech could upend nearly three decades of fence-mending since the 1991 Los Angeles Police Department beating of Rodney King ushered in an era of distrust of police.
“It’s the wrong message,” Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, told Washington radio station WTOP while speaking of the trust-building work that departments have undertaken since King’s beating. “The last thing we need is a green light from the president of the United States for officers to use unnecessary force.”
No doubt the President will accuse the Police Chiefs of being soft on crime. Just like the Boy Scouts, a bunch of wimps.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
