Things were "Better" under Trump you say?
The claim is that we should have Trump back because everything was "better" during his term. Was it?
There seems to be a lot of selective amnesia among the GOP these days.
During Trump’s term, the nation was challenged with yet another Police murder of an unarmed Black Man. Protests erupted. Outside agitators stoked violence, fires and shootings. The nation erupted in chaos, violence and division. And how did Trump respond?
He called George Floyd’s death a “Grave Tragedy” and then told police to “crackdown on protestors.” He claimed that the protestors were…
Profesionaly managed so-called “protestors” at the White House had little to do with memory of George Floyd. There were just there to cause trouble. The @SecretService handled them easily. Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE??? do
So not much solidarity with the movement. And not much concern about the larger problem. No effort at all to implement police reform, or even to have the FBI investigate these police departments for abuse. And he also claimed…
By the way they love African-American people. They over black people. MAGA loves Black people.
Then after the clashes outside the fence he goes.
Nobody breached the fence. If they had, they would have been greeted by the most vicious dogs and ominous weapons I have ever seen.
Yeah, so great. DC Mayor Bowser had a reaction to that.
To make a reference to vicious dogs is no subtle reminder to African-American of segregationists who let dogs on women, children and innocent people in the South.
Yes, how very Bull Connor of him.
And yet he continued.
These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let it happen. Just spoke to Gov. Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control, when the looting starts the shooting starts. Thank you.
This was his opening salvo, this was how he began things. And it got worse from there.
Trump’s original Attorney General was Jeff Sessions who frankly didn’t give 2 shits about police violence or murder. He didn’t care about previous investigations that had been done by the Obama Administration and blocked their effort to implement consent decrees intended to help clean those departments up.
If the United States attorney general sharply limits the power of the Justice Department to oversee police reforms in state and local jurisdictions, what becomes of Ferguson, Mo.?
The city, a suburb of St. Louis, is undergoing reforms under a so-called consent decree — an agreement between the Justice Department and a local jurisdiction, enforced by a federal judge, to overhaul a law enforcement agency that has been accused of abuses and civil rights violations.
Ferguson’s consent decree was enacted in 2016, two years after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer there.
The agreement is one of 14 currently being overseen by the Justice Department. But last week, just before he was forced out of office, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions signed a memorandum strictly limiting their use.
Now, top political appointees must sign off on the deals, there are new limits on their scope and duration, and department lawyers must lay out evidence of additional violations beyond unconstitutional behavior.
Civil rights groups were quick to condemn the move, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan federal agency, on Thursday urged the Justice Department to reverse course.
“Americans deserve police departments fully committed to constitutional policing,” Catherine E. Lhamon, the chairwoman of the commission, said. The Justice Department, she added, needed “to end dangerous backsliding on police reform.”
The memo signed by Mr. Sessions, a vocal critic of consent decrees for years, applies mostly to the enactment of new agreements. The existing consent decrees — in cities including Baltimore, Cleveland, New Orleans and Seattle — are still in place
So as soon as Trump came into office, Sessions started limiting and shut down the use of the only tool that has been shown to be effective at reducing police misconduct.
Shockingly, there was more and more misconduct.
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