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Trump, urges cops ‘don’t be too nice’
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Date: July 31, 2017 06:25PM
President Trump gave an impassioned speech in suburban New York to drum up support for his strict immigration and tough-on-crime policies.
From ABCNews: Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers appeared to encourage, or at least permit, a 16-year-old Mexican high school student to drink from a bottle that tests would later reveal contained concentrated liquid methamphetamine.
The young man, Cruz Velazquez, died within two hours of drinking the substance, but the two officers involved, Valerie Baird and Adrian Perallon, remain on the job today, with no disciplinary action taken against them.
In a speech to police officers, Trump repeatedly expressed his almost worshipful respect for law enforcement.
He urged the cops, “don’t be too nice” to suspects when they are “thrown into the back of a paddy wagon.” In 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore man under arrest for alleged possession of a switchblade knife, died of injuries he sustained being transported by police in the back of a van.
Still reeling from its failure to get through the Health Care Freedom Act through the Senate, the Trump administration is launching a renewed pitch to Congress for stronger borders to keep immigrants out of the country.
Trump said that no one has suffered more than the people of Long Island. “The Democrats have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful, quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields. They’re animals,” he said.
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From ABCNews: Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers appeared to encourage, or at least permit, a 16-year-old Mexican high school student to drink from a bottle that tests would later reveal contained concentrated liquid methamphetamine.
The young man, Cruz Velazquez, died within two hours of drinking the substance, but the two officers involved, Valerie Baird and Adrian Perallon, remain on the job today, with no disciplinary action taken against them.
In a speech to police officers, Trump repeatedly expressed his almost worshipful respect for law enforcement.
He urged the cops, “don’t be too nice” to suspects when they are “thrown into the back of a paddy wagon.” In 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore man under arrest for alleged possession of a switchblade knife, died of injuries he sustained being transported by police in the back of a van.
Still reeling from its failure to get through the Health Care Freedom Act through the Senate, the Trump administration is launching a renewed pitch to Congress for stronger borders to keep immigrants out of the country.
Trump said that no one has suffered more than the people of Long Island. “The Democrats have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful, quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields. They’re animals,” he said.
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Re: Trump, urges cops ‘don’t be too nice’
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Date: July 31, 2017 06:26PM
We the People are no longer presumed innocent in America. The President announced that from now on all suspects should be treated as if they were already found to be guilty and much worse. Not only does the President say to treat suspects like animals but police brutality is okay in America today. The President of these United Idiots wants the police to start roughing up suspects like they did to Freddie Gray or Eric Garner or Kelly Thomas or like Abner Louima who was sodomized by the NYPD.
Underground Newz spoke with former Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey, who is lashing back at comments from President Trump that seemed to encourage officers to use excessive force during arrests, saying the remarks reinforce a “negative stereotype of police that we’ve been trying to overcome.”
At a Friday speech addressing law enforcement, the president vowed to crack down on the immigrants and the Muslims and the homosexuals and told cops in attendance they don’t have to be “too nice” when dealing with such suspects.
“In my day they'd all get the noose please don’t be too nice,’” Trump said.
“Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head. You know, the way you put their hand over,” he continued, raising his hand over his head. “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,’ OK.”
Trump said that he was very much in favor of waterboarding during routine police questioning and allowing American citizens to be sent to Gitmo indefinitely but it may get held up by the courts.
The White House said Monday that Trump was joking.
When retired NYPD detective Harry Houck, another guest on the program, suggested Trump was joking, Ramsey passionately rejected that defense.
This is the president of the United States, he’s commander in chief, not a standup comic,” he spat back. “Words matter, and there’s responsibility that goes along with leadership.”
After Trump’s speech, a number of police departments and law enforcement organizations issued statements seeking to distance themselves from his comments. The Suffolk Country Police Department, which presides over the Long Island suburb where Trump delivered his remarks and had a number of officers in attendance Friday, said it “will not tolerate roughing up of prisoners.”
In Trump’s hometown of New York, Police Commissioner James O’Neill issued a highly critical statement reading, “To suggest that police officers apply any standard in the use of force other than what is reasonable and necessary should never be made public.” "Police use excessive force on a regular basis and we violate people’s constitutional rights but we can't say that publicly."
Trump has not publicly commented on the backlash, besides retweeting a clip of the Suffolk County Sheriff praising him.
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Underground Newz spoke with former Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey, who is lashing back at comments from President Trump that seemed to encourage officers to use excessive force during arrests, saying the remarks reinforce a “negative stereotype of police that we’ve been trying to overcome.”
At a Friday speech addressing law enforcement, the president vowed to crack down on the immigrants and the Muslims and the homosexuals and told cops in attendance they don’t have to be “too nice” when dealing with such suspects.
“In my day they'd all get the noose please don’t be too nice,’” Trump said.
“Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head. You know, the way you put their hand over,” he continued, raising his hand over his head. “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,’ OK.”
Trump said that he was very much in favor of waterboarding during routine police questioning and allowing American citizens to be sent to Gitmo indefinitely but it may get held up by the courts.
The White House said Monday that Trump was joking.
When retired NYPD detective Harry Houck, another guest on the program, suggested Trump was joking, Ramsey passionately rejected that defense.
This is the president of the United States, he’s commander in chief, not a standup comic,” he spat back. “Words matter, and there’s responsibility that goes along with leadership.”
After Trump’s speech, a number of police departments and law enforcement organizations issued statements seeking to distance themselves from his comments. The Suffolk Country Police Department, which presides over the Long Island suburb where Trump delivered his remarks and had a number of officers in attendance Friday, said it “will not tolerate roughing up of prisoners.”
In Trump’s hometown of New York, Police Commissioner James O’Neill issued a highly critical statement reading, “To suggest that police officers apply any standard in the use of force other than what is reasonable and necessary should never be made public.” "Police use excessive force on a regular basis and we violate people’s constitutional rights but we can't say that publicly."
Trump has not publicly commented on the backlash, besides retweeting a clip of the Suffolk County Sheriff praising him.
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