Trump to police - 'Don't be too nice' - 'Throw them in the paddy wagon'

[afleitch]

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/891010404499021824

“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in. Rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice.’ Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head – like ‘don’t hit their head’ – and they’ve just killed somebody? I said, ‘You can take the hand away.'”

[Reaganfan]

The President just referred to the MS-13 gangs as "animals". I love this man. What a refreshing change after 8 years of a President so critical of police.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Anyone else notice the irony of a guy who's literally committed crime and fraud his whole life lecturing on how to treat criminals

Oh, yes. The utmost irony will be if, when he is eventually perpwalked himself, he accidentally cracks his head because he won't let the cops touch his toupee/weave/implant (whatever the thing on his head is).

[Beet]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable. The cops do a dangerous job - and a lot of times there'll be mistakes. In a few cases - like with Phil Castile, it really shouldn't have happened, but police shouldn't feel they have no support enforcing our laws.

Anyway, CNN broadcast the whole Trump speech. The idea that they're somehow 'anti-Trump' is just a joke. Trump = ratings.

[KingSweden]

This is going to make a lot of tort lawyers very very rich

[136or142]

Anyone else notice the irony of a guy who's literally committed crime and fraud his whole life lecturing on how to treat criminals

Oh, yes. The utmost irony will be if, when he is eventually perpwalked himself, he accidentally cracks his head because he won't let the cops touch his toupee/weave/implant (whatever the thing on his head is).

Trump can say this because as a leading member of the American oligarchy (and now the leading member) he knows he'll never go to jail (or be arrested)

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Anyone else notice the irony of a guy who's literally committed crime and fraud his whole life lecturing on how to treat criminals

Oh, yes. The utmost irony will be if, when he is eventually perpwalked himself, he accidentally cracks his head because he won't let the cops touch his toupee/weave/implant (whatever the thing on his head is).

Trump can say this because as a leading member of the American oligarchy (and now the leading member) he knows he'll never go to jail (or be arrested)

I'm sure Louis XVI thought the same. And so did the probably more similar Charles I.

[136or142]

Anyone else notice the irony of a guy who's literally committed crime and fraud his whole life lecturing on how to treat criminals

Oh, yes. The utmost irony will be if, when he is eventually perpwalked himself, he accidentally cracks his head because he won't let the cops touch his toupee/weave/implant (whatever the thing on his head is).

Trump can say this because as a leading member of the American oligarchy (and now the leading member) he knows he'll never go to jail (or be arrested)

I'm sure Louis XVI thought the same. And so did the probably more similar Charles I.

Are you predicting an American version of the French Revolution?

[Mike Thick]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable. The cops do a dangerous job - and a lot of times there'll be mistakes. In a few cases - like with Phil Castile, it really shouldn't have happened, but police shouldn't feel they have no support enforcing our laws.

Anyway, CNN broadcast the whole Trump speech. The idea that they're somehow 'anti-Trump' is just a joke. Trump = ratings.

There are many, many ways to support the police that don't involve advocating for police brutality.

[7,052,770]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable.

Democrats already spent the whole 2016 convention doing that.

[ProudModerate2]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable. The cops do a dangerous job - and a lot of times there'll be mistakes. In a few cases - like with Phil Castile, it really shouldn't have happened, but police shouldn't feel they have no support enforcing our laws.

Anyway, CNN broadcast the whole Trump speech. The idea that they're somehow 'anti-Trump' is just a joke. Trump = ratings.

There are many, many ways to support the police that don't involve advocating for police brutality.

Agree.
At a time when "police action" is under fire, the Orange Clown should not be talking about just "throwing people in the paddy wagon." The president should show support for police, but not in this fashion. Once again, like at the Boys Scouts event, trump f**ks-up the true message of why he is there. He is a bumbling Idiot !

[maga2020]

Because being nice to violent people will surely make them less violent, rather than making those people think their behavior has been rewarded.

[publicunofficial]

Because being nice to violent people will surely make them less violent, rather than making those people think their behavior has been rewarded.

If they want their violent behavior to be rewarded, they should join the NYPD.

[Higgins]

Because being nice to violent people will surely make them less violent, rather than making those people think their behavior has been rewarded.

If they want their violent behavior to be rewarded, they should join the NYPD.

Why the hatred for authority, Comrade?

[ProudModerate2]

Because being nice to violent people will surely make them less violent, rather than making those people think their behavior has been rewarded.

No one is saying you need to be "nice." It's just that you cant abuse them, especially after the cops have control over the perpetrator (in hand cuffs). Once in hand cuffs, you don't then "throw them into the paddy wagon." This could injure or even kill them.
Do you remember the Baltimore story about Freddie Gray who died after his spine injury with cops and a "paddy wagon" ?

Mistreatment and injury can cost thousands, sometimes millions of dollars awarded in civil cases. As a citizen, I don't want my city/county paying out thousands. That money could better be used for other purposes within my/our community. Talk about "rewarding" the perpetrators  .... let's just give him $100,000, or $2 million to the surviving family. And, even worse than money, is the loss of confidence in the department from many citizens.

[Kamala]

Slowly but surely, this is leading to the fetishization of the police state.

[ProudModerate2]

I knew it.
Just like the Boy Scouts event, the police department (this time) is apologizing on behalf of the Orange Clown's words, and telling their police force to NOT follow the president's "suggestions."
Once again, the president gets an "F" on his report card.

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[Tartarus Sauce]

Trump should be thrown in the back of a paddy wagon and the police should not to be too nice about it.

[Pyro]

"Notice how in Trump's example the person being lowered gently into the car is a murderer, as though most arrests being made were for murder. He conveniently casts the person in the "joke" as someone who has carried out an execution. Well of course the malleable audience of cops laps it up. Why think about the time cops tasered a kid on LSD in his genitals? Why think about the time they sicced an attack dog on a suicidal kid? Why think about the countless times they shot unarmed black people? Why think about putting down strikes and protests? Why think about pulling people out of wheelchairs? No, instead let's consider a M U R D E R E R bumping his head on the way into the car.

Schadenfreude and Sadism are bread and butter among police forces, who are systematically taught to think of themselves as highly disciplined heroes and not overfunded goon squads." - Aleph Nolan

[Beet]

I knew it.
Just like the Boy Scouts event, the police department (this time) is apologizing on behalf of the Orange Clown's words, and telling their police force to NOT follow the president's "suggestions."
Once again, the president gets an "F" on his report card.

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Lol, liberals are now defending police departments? If there was a controversial shooting you would throw the Suffolk County PD under the bus in a split second and you know it. I mean, of course they have to put out a pro forma denial to be PC, but in their hearts the men & women in blue know the president has their back and that's what matters.

Not that I'm endorsing either "side", but you have to understand where the other one is coming from.

[Yank2133]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable.

Democrats already spent the whole 2016 convention doing that.

Seriously.

The entire Democratic convention was exactly like how the GOP used to do in their conventions in the Reagan era.

I remember some on left thought it was way over the top in terms of patriotism and praising the troops, cops, firefighters etc.

[Higgins]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable.

Democrats already spent the whole 2016 convention doing that.

Seriously.

The entire Democratic convention was exactly like how the GOP used to do in their conventions in the Reagan era.

I remember some on left thought it was way over the top in terms of patriotism and praising the troops, cops, firefighters etc.

It seemed hollow.

[Indy Texas]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable.

Democrats already spent the whole 2016 convention doing that.

Seriously.

The entire Democratic convention was exactly like how the GOP used to do in their conventions in the Reagan era.

I remember some on left thought it was way over the top in terms of patriotism and praising the troops, cops, firefighters etc.

And the GOP Establishment/Neocon commentators wistfully saying, "That used to be us."

[maga2020]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable.

Democrats already spent the whole 2016 convention doing that.

Seriously.

The entire Democratic convention was exactly like how the GOP used to do in their conventions in the Reagan era.

I remember some on left thought it was way over the top in terms of patriotism and praising the troops, cops, firefighters etc.

All for nothing, the cops know the democrats are their enemies and side with domestic terrorists like BLM.

Cops had never been so excited to support a candidate like they did to Trump, Ferguson was the exact moment the democrats became a permanent minority in America.

[Higgins]

I'm liberal and I have no problem with this. The police feel so scrutinized, like they have to be walking on pins and needles all the time, so attacked, and worry they have no support for their job. Trump is just giving them a pep talk. Loosening them up. Making them feel good. That's totally understandable.

Democrats already spent the whole 2016 convention doing that.

Seriously.

The entire Democratic convention was exactly like how the GOP used to do in their conventions in the Reagan era.

I remember some on left thought it was way over the top in terms of patriotism and praising the troops, cops, firefighters etc.

All for nothing, the cops know the democrats are their enemies and side with domestic terrorists like BLM.

Cops had never been so excited to support a candidate like they did to Trump, Ferguson was the exact moment the democrats became a permanent minority in America.

Pretty much this. A certain wing of the Democrats have been the enemy of the "pigs" since the late 1960s.