Donald John Trump is an ignorant thug. Let’s just be clear on that because that’s what the situation is. It’s been clear every since he personally spent his own money to put out an full page New York Times ad against a set of innocent black teenagers who were accused of raping a white woman and personally called for the death penalty to be used against them — which in international terms would be considered a crime against humanity.
And it doesn’t even matter to him that after they’d wrongfully spent years in prison those teens were completely and fully exonerated due to DNA evidence and the full confession of the man whose DNA actually matched. Even with all the he still said the $41 Million settlement paid to them by the city of New York was the “greatest scam ever.”
So it should come as little surprise that today while standing in front of thousand of Police in order to honor and inspiring their anti-gang initiatives Trump said something bone head stupid about how to handle suspects.
“When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don’t be too nice,” Trump said during a speech at Suffolk County Community College. “Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody — don’t hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”
Yeah, there was this one time with this kid who was thrown in the back of a paddy wagon, handcuffed behind his back, suffering from a neck injury with no seat belt who by the time the wagon reached the station had a broken freaking neck. He died a few days later and when they tried to prosecute the officers who failed to protect his safety, they were all acquitted and charges were dropped.
Still the worse part is that when he said the above the crowd, which was filled with currently serving officers, cheered loudly. So now we know it’s really not just a few bad apples, it’s a few bad bunches.
Apparently Trump thinks we need more of that sort of thing, but the International Association of Police Chief’s doesn’t.
Here’s an excerpt from the Chiefs.
Law enforcement agencies develop policies and procedures, as well as conduct extensive training, to ensure that any use of force is carefully applied and objectively reasonable considering the situation confronted by officers,” the association writes. “Law enforcement officers are trained to treat all individuals, whether they are complainant, suspect, or defendant, with dignity and respect.”
Dignity, Respect, Professionalism. All alien concepts to Trump.
Full comment:
It doesn’t matter that we’ll talking about a little bump on the head, what we’re really saying is Officers — while people are still supposed assumed “innocent” before there’s been a chance for a judge or jury to determine and validate guilt and assign punishment — are not supposed to be meeting out cruelty on a whim or simply because they feel upset or annoyed with someones behavior.
According to the latest estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics
approximately 1,900 people suffer from “Arrest Related Deaths” each year in America. That’s an average of 5 per day!
This is an attitude betrays he believes that the law doesn’t matter, that the constitutional provisions for a “due process” doesn’t matter, the evidences, facts, truth and pursuit of justice simply. don’t. matter.
Just treat people like shit. Just because you have a badge. Just because you think they may have done something. Just because you don’t like they way the look, or wear their hair, or they said something rude, or just because you feel like it.
Just because....
Saturday, Jul 29, 2017 · 6:12:43 PM +00:00
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Frank Vyan Walton
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