Looting has been over for many days, but the president and some of his allies want reporters to keep talking about it. https://t.co/iAjflsWFfA— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 16, 2020
And feeding into the idea that the very purpose of police is to keep certain people in line. Especially people on the streets expressing their opinions by taking the streets back from....automobiles.
"They're very tiny. I use the word tiny. It's a small percentage. But you have them," Trump says about police officers and what he calls a small group who abuse their authority.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 16, 2020
Statistics courtesy of Professor Otto Yerass. Seen too many examples of police brutality (as we called it in the '60's) to think it's only a few bad actors. The true minority are the police who kneel with protestors and try to maintain order peaceably rather than at the end of a baton or with a rubber bullet.
Trump says that his executive order on policing bans choke holds "unless an officer's life is at risk.”— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) June 16, 2020
The likeliest defense in the prosecution of the murder of George Floyd, as it is in every case where police shoot first and make excuses later. Besides, his ban can only reach federal agencies; only Congress can pass a law that affects state and local police departments.
In Rose Garden event on police reform, TRUMP said school choice is the “civil rights of our time."— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 16, 2020
Because really, the most important issue is being able to choose not to go to school with black kids, amirite? That's all "seperate but equal" was ever about, anyway. Do I go too far?
“We must build upon our heritage, not tear it down,” Trump says, at a moment when statues honoring confederate generals are being pulled down.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 16, 2020
I don't think so. When has "heritage," used as "our heritage," ever been anything but a more polite way of saying what Randy Newman said in "Rednecks"? (You know the line I mean, don't make me type it out.)
Minutes after Trump said now is not the time for stoking division, he attacks Obama and Biden for not doing more, he says, to reform policing tactics.— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) June 16, 2020
Trump says many things but saying Obama/Biden didn't try on police reform is totally detached from reality— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) June 16, 2020
More detached from reality than this?
No one in the scientific community expects a "cure" by the end of the year. https://t.co/qaCJqEBU0f— Jason Ukman (@JasonUkman) June 16, 2020
I know children who believe in Santa Claus more grounded in reality than this.
Trump met ahead of the event in private with families of suspects killed by police; he surrounds himself with law enforcement officers and union members as he signs executive order in Rose Garden. pic.twitter.com/XbiCcJQ1vd— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) June 16, 2020
Everything about him screams "Stuck in the '70's," even the tokenism (which is no longer even a vocabulary word, but it was a reality 50 years ago).
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