‘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brutality, urging them to be harsh and rough with suspects they arrest, and suggested the Second Amendment would be repealed were he not President.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?'”
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.
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