2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump openly advocated police brutality when, during a campaign speech in Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday, September 29, he called for "one really violent day" of policing. This "extraordinarily rough" approach, Trump promised, would dramatically reduce crime in maj...
Like so much Trump says and does, it’s Republicans demanding a state of affairs that already exists, but that we’re socially ashamed of.
Ask the guy in the NYC subway who caught a bullet for being adjacent to a turnstile jumper if we have violent policing. Ask George Floyd. Ask Sandra Bland. Ask Rodney King.
It already exists. We already functionally endorse it. We already put these acts is brutality on the front page.
We just don’t feel good when we see it. That’s what Trump wants to change. He wants us to view domestic police brutality like Israelis treat genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He wants us to clap.
I’ve got a buddy who had the shit beaten out of him by Austin PD back in the '90s. He’s A REALLY big white guy and the police cited his size as the reason they felt threatened by him.
He fortunately won his lawsuit when he was able to provide evidence that the police beat him up because it seemed like a fun challenge to take down someone so large.
Trump’s call for violence is one that cops nationwide will gladly answer
Yup.
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