One reason why the police are violent? ....trump tells law enforcement: 'Don't be too nice'

[spanone]

July 28, 2017

— -- President Donald Trump seemed to encourage police to be more violent in handling potential offenders during a speech to law enforcement officers today.

"Please don't be too nice," he said to the audience in Long Island, New York.

While the speech was largely focused on the fight against the gang MS-13, it appeared that Trump was directing his comments about police interactions with suspected criminals in general.

He described the precautions typically taken by police where they place a hand over a suspect's head while they're being put into a police car to protect them.

"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’" he said.

"When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head]," Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "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?'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-police-nice-suspects/story?id=48914504

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Symptom, not a cause.

Cops were violent before Trump and will be violent after Trump unless we do something about it.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. But such inspiring words......

from the 'leader of the Free World......'

[spanone]

3. A 'president' encouraging violence, is encouraging violence. Not a symptom.

[Ocelot II]

4. Police were violent long before Trump,

just like people were racist long before Trump. He just made it easier to get away with.

[spanone]

6. He encouraged it.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

[Dan]

7. My opinion is that they're hiring all the vets from the Middle East wars,

And their training and reality was street/house to house fighting.... trust no one, combined with very little reaction time to react in a firefight.

They were trained too react very quickly and collateral damage (accidental killings) was ignored or justified due to the heat of the moment.

They’re applying what they were trained to do in their actions with the brown/black people in the U.S., cause in some ways they kinda look like those people over there...

My opinion.