Trump shows his contempt for Black Lives on Day One

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Sunday January 22, 2017 · 12:33 PM PST

2017/01/22 · 12:33

As part of his White House website whitewash where references to Civil Rights, Climate Change and Criminal Justice reform were removed and some strong ~~pro-fascist jackboot~~ Law Enforcement language was added. Via Slate.

“The Trump Administration will be a law and order administration,” reads a page on the website titled "Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community." It continues: “President Trump will honor our men and women in uniform and will support their mission of protecting the public. The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Administration will end it.”

In case it wasn’t clear who and what the Trump administration blames for this “anti-police atmosphere,” the website clarified: “Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter.”

Given the endorsement Trump received from the Fraternal Order of Police and his consistent praise of police officers on the campaign trail, it’s not surprising that he feels revved up about being a “law and order” president who will defend the honor of the nation’s men and women in blue. Still, it was chilling to see such unambiguous evidence of his contempt for those who've protested against police violence—and the strength of his apparent resolve to snuff out their movement—appear on the official White House website just minutes after he officially became president.

With an Attorney General nominee who is openly contemptuous of the Obama’s Administration extensive effort to investigate the Civil Rights compliance of 20 local police departments finding that many of them including the PD’s of Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, Ferguson, New Orleans and Puerto Rico had engaged in widespread practices of abuse and unjustified shootings.

I sadly, suspect that we can expect anti-violence and police abuse protestors in the future to be treated the way they were at Trump rallies, which frankly was not “well”.

Unfortunately for Trump that will not qwell the moral imperative for people to speak out against injustice and violence, it will only stoke the flames higher.

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