In Speech to Cops Trump Encourages Police Brutality and Warns if He ‘Doesn’t Win Your 2nd Amendment Is Gone’
‘Wasn’t Looking So Good for the Second Amendment Was It, Huh?’
Speaking to uniformed local law enforcement officers from suburban New York Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump advocated for police brutality, urging them to be harsh and rough with suspects they arrest, and suggested the Second Amendment would be repealed were he not President.
“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you see them thrown in, rough, I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’ like, when you guys put somebody in a 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, OK?'”
Here’s the president of the United States encouraging police officers to be rough with people they arrest pic.twitter.com/iLzoUEY89e
— David Mack (@davidmackau) July 28, 2017
What Trump was actually doing was encouraging law enforcement officers to ignore both their departments’ policies and local, state, and federal law. He literally is encouraging them to subject themselves to lawsuits, and possible arrest and prosecution. In short, he is encouraging police brutality.
That was just a small portion of the President’s speech.
He also said if he hadn’t won the 2016 election – and even seemed to imply if he doesn’t win re-election – the Second Amendment would be “gone.”
“Your Second Amendment is safe,” Trump said. “Wasn’t looking so good for the Second Amendment was it, huh? If Trump doesn’t win, your 2nd Amendment is gone,” the President warned, then repeated himself.
“Wasn’t looking so good for the 2nd Amendment was it, huh? If Trump doesn’t win, your 2nd Amendment is gone,” says President Trump pic.twitter.com/V69FMkuQ6g
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 28, 2017
Some responses via Twitter:
The president just encouraged the police to rough up suspects once they’re arrested, to considerable applause. pic.twitter.com/L1Rqoi82LE
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 28, 2017
The Second Amendment can’t be “gone” under any president. This is vintage stupid.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 28, 2017
He did, and not in a way that was remotely vague.
More surprising still, the audience of police officers applauded. https://t.co/3GLCJqBRmh— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 28, 2017
Unusual to see a presidential endorsement of police officers gratuitously roughing up people who are presumed to be innocent. https://t.co/qZEWgRp8Xj
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 28, 2017
The president just advocated for police brutality.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 28, 2017
In the unlikely event the Trump DOJ ever tries to prosecute a police officer for excessive force, you will see this quote at trial. https://t.co/PHKefIZhHM
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 28, 2017
President Trump is openly and explicitly calling for, to wild applause just moments ago, cops to commit more police brutality.
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) July 28, 2017
Trump is LITERALLY encouraging police brutality right now during his speech to a group of law enforcement officers.
— Shareblue (@Shareblue) July 28, 2017
The president is asking law enforcement to be more violent to people in custody.https://t.co/dNjPVV8xiAhttps://t.co/LC173fPsbW
— Dara Lind (@DLind) July 28, 2017
The president just explicitly said he wants cops to feel free to literally bash the heads of people they’ve arrested.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 28, 2017
Trump has concluded. For an official non-rally speech, that was notably loose and empty, even for Trump.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 28, 2017
WTF, Trump?
Why are you advocating police brutality to a room full of cops?
And why are they cheering brutality?
Christ.#FridayFeeling— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) July 28, 2017
July 28, 2017: A crowd of people in uniform chanting U-S-A, U-S-A, while the president encourages violence and calls his enemies “animals”
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) July 28, 2017
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