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
underpants
(182,883 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)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"
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)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...
atreides1
(16,093 posts)Trump is the best recruiter any gang ever had!!!
adigal
(7,581 posts)Call 631-852-6000 and complain. Bunch of white racist cops cheering beating up suspects. Ask for Comm. office.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Girard442
(6,085 posts)TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)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.
ExciteBike66
(2,374 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)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.
LisaM
(27,832 posts)Did he think he was speaking to the Keystone Cops?
Tanuki
(14,921 posts)rounded up by the police (back in the day when the term originated) would be a bunch of "paddies."
I wonder how many Long Island cops are Irish?
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)He'd love a police state
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)blaze
(6,373 posts)enough
(13,262 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts). . .to handle the assault and battery charges, not to mention civil rights violations.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)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.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)when he's arrested for treason.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)They are just too nice.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)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
Afromania
(2,771 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)bora13
(860 posts)"why don't you people start the race war for me and my friends?"
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)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!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)He's a psychopath.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)Doitnow
(1,103 posts)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.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Trump's new policing policy
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)After all, if they're innocent, why were they arrested?
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)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)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.