Please don’t be too Trump-like
Not all cops are delighted by Trump’s advice to let suspects slam their heads into the cars as they’re being shoved in.
The criticism online started shortly after Mr. Trump’s comments, which came at an event in Brentwood, N.Y., which was intended to support the police in their fight against La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a gang that has been accused of several murders on Long Island.
After calling for more immigration officers to help arrest the gang members, Mr. Trump told officers, “Please don’t be too nice.”
“Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over” their head, he said, putting his hand above his head for emphasis. “I said, ‘You can take the hand away, O.K.?’”
The president’s remark was denounced by police officials and organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Foundation and Steve Soboroff, one of the civilian commissioners who oversees the Los Angeles Police Department.
“What the president recommended would be out of policy in the Los Angeles Police Department,” Mr. Soboroff told The Los Angeles Times. “It’s not what policing is about today.”
Michael Harrison, chief of the New Orleans Police Department, said in a statement on Saturday that Mr. Trump’s comments “stand in stark contrast to our department’s commitment to constitutional policing and community engagement.” The department is one of more than a dozen since 2009 to agree to make reforms under the direction of a federal monitor.
But he was making a joke. Don’t you have a sense of humor??
Trump didn't tell police to go out & brutalize people as the media would have you believe. It was a joke. 🙄https://t.co/yBq6PGY0pa
— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) July 28, 2017
Sure it was a “joke” – but he meant it. He means a lot of his “jokes.”
Oh, I get it! They’re bad guys, so when they’re under your control, bash them around a little, accidentally on purpose!
How silly of The Media to have us believe that isn’t hilarious.
No presumption of innocence here. Punishment begins with arrest. I wonder if he’s still looking for a way to execute the Central Park Five?
I don’t give a flying fuck if it was meant as a joke — some jokes are just irresponsible. And given that in some cities, suspects do some-mysterious-how often wind up with significant injuries before they ever see a courtroom (what’s that thing called where they leave a bound but unrestrained suspect in the back of the wagon while they drive slalom all over town?), this one is waaay over that line.
He said it himself: “he’s not a kidder”.
Trump doesn’t make jokes, just mean comments.