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brooklynite

(94,737 posts)
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 03:09 PM Jul 2017

Trump to cops: 'Don't be too nice'

Source: The Hill

President Trump told police officers not to be "too nice" to suspects they are arresting while giving a major law enforcement and immigration policy speech in Long Island, N.Y., on Friday.

"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddywagon, you just see them thrown in, rough. I said please don't be too nice," Trump told the audience at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, where the county's police force is centered.

"Like when you put somebody into a car and you protect their head? ... I said you can take the hand away, OK?" Trump added.

Trump was referencing the way officers routinely place suspects into the back of police cars, appearing to suggest officers take less care to make sure suspects don't hit their head while entering the vehicle.
The suggestion was met by cheers in the crowd.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344364-trump-encourages-cops-to-be-rough-with-suspects

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Trump to cops: 'Don't be too nice' (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2017 OP
Shocking underpants Jul 2017 #1
Not shocking, really RVN VET71 Jul 2017 #12
Brentwood PD KKK Dawson Leery Jul 2017 #2
When has that ever been a problem? Aristus Jul 2017 #3
He just helped MS-13! atreides1 Jul 2017 #4
Call the Suffolk Police Commissioner - those white cops all cheered adigal Jul 2017 #5
Everyone who applauded would be fired if we lived in a democracy. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #21
So when they put Donnie Jr. in the car... NT Girard442 Jul 2017 #6
Or his dad TimeToGo Jul 2017 #10
Yep. That's the guy who should have been arrested by the cops, Mc Mike Jul 2017 #32
If they slap your car, shoot them! nt ExciteBike66 Jul 2017 #7
You'd face first degree murder charges if you did that. LisaL Jul 2017 #18
The paddywagon? LisaM Jul 2017 #8
It's also a slur against the Irish, with the implication that the people Tanuki Jul 2017 #33
I know! LisaM Jul 2017 #34
What an ass dbackjon Jul 2017 #9
Trump thinks suspects are guilty until proven innocent. Unless their name is Trump. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2017 #11
It's what Vlad wants. nt blaze Jul 2017 #13
Appalling. NT enough Jul 2017 #14
I suppose he will personally pay for the legal teams necessary RVN VET71 Jul 2017 #15
the judges he will appoint will NEVER find for a plaintiff Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #19
I hope they're also not "too nice" to him louis-t Jul 2017 #16
Yes, cause this is the main problem with police right now. LisaL Jul 2017 #17
Maybe he will get more like Duerte Phillipines and also allow officers to rape up to 3 women lunasun Jul 2017 #20
This week has been a banner ad for doing things the Nazi way in trump world. Afromania Jul 2017 #22
Hitler didn't do it alone. Plenty were willing to do things the Nazi way in thier own world too lunasun Jul 2017 #23
he's like bora13 Jul 2017 #24
It did remind me of Hitler talking to brown shirts about roughing up the Jews. demigoddess Jul 2017 #25
Robert Mueller, don't be too nice to Cheeto Jesus. muntrv Jul 2017 #26
Why? Because of the large Latino population in Brentwood? muntrv Jul 2017 #27
He needs to be locked up in a psych ward. truthisfreedom Jul 2017 #28
This kind of thing certainly seems worthy of impeachment. Urging police to mistreat the arrested. Akamai Jul 2017 #29
Just like the bully he is, a coward who asks others to do his dirty work. Always ready to incite Doitnow Jul 2017 #30
And shoot the 'thugs' if you "fear for your lives" left-of-center2012 Jul 2017 #31
Wonder if the Bundy militia types arrested would agree? keithbvadu2 Jul 2017 #35
Good one JohnnyRingo Jul 2017 #38
Trump thinks everyone that is 'anybody' thinks like he does LiberalLovinLug Jul 2017 #36
What about the innocent ones? JohnnyRingo Jul 2017 #37

RVN VET71

(2,698 posts)
12. Not shocking, really
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 03:31 PM
Jul 2017

When a fart comes out of a POS, it's pretty much what you expect.

What's shocking are the cheers this awful, awful excuse for a man gets when he says these awful, awful things. Even the Boy Scouts joined in with adulatory cheers, applause, and, of course, hisses for the good people he maligned. The USA had a lot of quiet ugly racists and bigots before Trump showed up on the scene. Now they've all been given the go ahead to publicly express their ugliness -- and, god damn it, there's 60,000,000 of them! How the hell is the country ever going to put itself back together after being "led" by one of the worst of its citizens?

"Make America Gag Again"

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
3. When has that ever been a problem?
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 03:15 PM
Jul 2017

The problem is undertrained, nervous-Nellie, gun-crazed, doughnut-munching, pot-bellied Deputy Dawg types who shoot first and ask questions never.

Garbage collectors are better trained than your average LEO. And likely more noble in character, as well...

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
5. Call the Suffolk Police Commissioner - those white cops all cheered
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 03:16 PM
Jul 2017

Call 631-852-6000 and complain. Bunch of white racist cops cheering beating up suspects. Ask for Comm. office.‬

Mc Mike

(9,115 posts)
32. Yep. That's the guy who should have been arrested by the cops,
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 06:03 PM
Jul 2017

a hundred times, over the last 40 years.

All his cases get shunted over to civil court, he always settles without admitting wrongdoing.

He should have been muscled into a squad car by overzealous cops a hundred times. Instead, he's in charge of law enforcement and let's them know they can beat up suspected criminals. While he surrounds himself with mob crooks, violent felons, every aide is a person of interest in federal investigations. And while he simultaneously attacks and fires Attorneys General, top FBI officials, and special prosecutors.

LisaL

(44,974 posts)
18. You'd face first degree murder charges if you did that.
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 03:56 PM
Jul 2017

Of course the cop who shot a woman who allegedly slapped the car (presumably trying to get his attention, because she called 911) hasn't been arrested to this day.

Tanuki

(14,921 posts)
33. It's also a slur against the Irish, with the implication that the people
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 06:04 PM
Jul 2017

rounded up by the police (back in the day when the term originated) would be a bunch of "paddies."

RVN VET71

(2,698 posts)
15. I suppose he will personally pay for the legal teams necessary
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 03:41 PM
Jul 2017

. . .to handle the assault and battery charges, not to mention civil rights violations.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
19. the judges he will appoint will NEVER find for a plaintiff
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 04:24 PM
Jul 2017

suing the police for either a crime or civilly for financial damages.

This is how a coup to fascism works.

You dont sue for felony of course, but you know what I mean. The laws will change, when they beat the holy hell out of you for smiling, it will be legal very soon.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
20. Maybe he will get more like Duerte Phillipines and also allow officers to rape up to 3 women
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 04:33 PM
Jul 2017

4 is not ok only up to 3
Roughing up suspects ENCOURAGED .mmake sure you let the suspects slip and hit thier heads
POTUS allowing cops to be judge and jury
cops listening and laughing along with him
Like cops don't already have enough psychopaths among thier ranks
What kind of sadist does this appeal to for recruitment ?

Not that there are t plenty willing to act in this manner based on the cheers Trump got

demigoddess

(6,645 posts)
25. It did remind me of Hitler talking to brown shirts about roughing up the Jews.
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 04:57 PM
Jul 2017

After all these people don't belong here in the US. That was pretty much what he was saying. And then followed up with "if we get rid of all these guys, the country will be pretty and nice again" OMFG!

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
30. Just like the bully he is, a coward who asks others to do his dirty work. Always ready to incite
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jul 2017

violence and blame others because he can't accept what a small person he is. My husband would call him
a Rimless Zero. Something less than nothing.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)
36. Trump thinks everyone that is 'anybody' thinks like he does
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 01:30 PM
Jul 2017

And there are deplorables that are stupid and ignorant about how law enforcement works. How the Law works. That police brutality is a GOOD thing. That it gets things done faster, that anyone that is in police custody DESERVES to be there and must be guilty of something. And a few knocks on the side of the head ain't no big deal anyway.

But Trump has this idea that Americans, at least enough of them to back him, are just as deplorable, misogynistic, racist, wingnut as he is. Now there is a disturbingly significant minority, but he goes on rallys and preaches to this relatively small segment of his choir that are as dumb as he is and thinks that, despite the 'fake news' polls, the majority are with him and are just as depraved and immoral, and its that they don't get their voices heard in those polls. That its all "nudge nudge wink wink" with most Americans.

JohnnyRingo

(18,641 posts)
37. What about the innocent ones?
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 01:47 PM
Jul 2017

Of course it's presumptuous to believe someone is innocent until proven otherwise when they're arrested, but that's apparently Trump's view of his Great America. Compensatory lawsuits are something Trump believes to be an American virtue as well, so expect agencies to suffer accordingly.

Someone has to ask Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III if he also condones his president's call for sending suspects on a side trip to the hospital before arriving at county jail just to watch him squirm and sweat.

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