Donald Trump suggests police being 'extraordinarily rough' would end retail theft

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

September 30, 2024, 12:13 AM


At a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, former President Donald Trump suggested "one rough hour" of law enforcement would deter retail theft.

After falsely claiming crime is up in the U.S. under President Joe Biden, mostly due to migrant crime, Trump brought up seeing stores in New York City and San Francisco locking up their merchandise behind glass doors.

"See, we have to let the police do their job. And if they have to be extraordinarily rough --" Trump trailed off as his rally crowd cheered. Trump went on to claim, without evidence, that people are walking out of stores with items like air conditioning units and refrigerators "on their back," "And the police aren't allowed to do their job," he said.

"They're told if you do anything, you're going to lose your pension; you're going to lose your family, your house, your car. The police want to do it. The Border Patrol wants to do it. ... They're not allowed to do it because the liberal left won't let 'em do it," he said on stage.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/donald-trump-suggests-police-extraordinarily-rough-end-retail/story?id=114340130

[Turbineguy]

1. What should they do about guys who steal from charities?

[multigraincracker]

2. "Under Color of Law"..

That’d be illegal.

[paleotn]

3. The usual trog answer to complex issues.

If the death penalty were an actual deterrent, then why are there still so many murders in Texas?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Consider the mass torts against those

municipalities for police who are brutal.

[-misanthroptimist]

5. Of course he advocates violence.

As long as he is in no danger, he loves violence. Pretty typical for a bully.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. why not summary executions without trial? why have courts at all? make police judge, jury, and executioner all in one

Why not just do away with due process all together? Declare the 4-8th amendments null and void and use whatever means necessary.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. I'm sure he would love to

[musclecar6]

30. Yes

Adolf Hitler did it why not the orange menace. After all he’s going to protect all the women. Anybody crosses him, off with the head, just like they did in the olden days. He’s almost out of control now verbally, so just give him the power and he’ll cut a wide swath through this country.

Ya think some of the less crazy voters are finally starting to get an idea of what a raving lunatic this character is ?

[AZLD4Candidate]

32. Sentence first verdict after. Queen of Hearts from Through the Looking Glass.

[Hope22]

7. New rules

Treasonous traitors subjected to the same ……….

[twodogsbarking]

8. 34 felonies and a sexual predator.

[ChazInAz]

9. One of his minions must have told him about Kristalnacht.

Or maybe described a pogrom.

[markodochartaigh]

20. The last lynching is commonly

considered to have happened in 1981.
And Trump went on the presidential equivalent of shooting someone on 5th Ave as he tried to overturn the results of the election in his final months in office.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald#:~:text=The%20lynching%20of%20Michael%20Donald,his%20body%20from%20a%20tree.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-capital-punishment-brandon-bernard-lisa-montgomery-1234664126/

[Evolve Dammit]

23. He knows Nazi history all too well

[hlthe2b]

10. Would bankrupt local municipalities for the lawsuits over false arrest, police brutality, excessive use of force,

and manslaughter/homicide.

But, Trump gets yet another talking point to incite the hate-filled crowds.

[Clouds Passing]

11. Sad to say, it will probably happen. When Dump calls for violence it usually follows.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. What a stupid man

So one night, MAGAts go out and beat up people they don't like the looks of. Then the next night all those victims families and friends go out and beat them up, or shoot them more likely. Then the MAGAts come out again, then victims fight back, back and forth. And what have you got?

What a stupid man he is. Does he think we liberals don't know how to fight back? We can buy and use guns too.

He just wants to see Americans hurting and suffering and doesn't care if they are his supporters too. Just look at how many more GOPers died from COVID.

[riversedge]

13. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: I study dictators and this chills me. Given all his comments in the past about executing

Ruth Ben-Ghiat
@ruthbenghiat
I study dictators and this chills me. Given all his comments in the past about executing people & shooting looters and his admiration for leaders specialized in mass repression, it's not hard to imagine what "one really violent day" would mean.
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Link to tweet

[markodochartaigh]

21. I like Ruth Ben-Ghiat

but this quote is misleading. Trump didn't just "make comments" about executions. Trump used executions to gin up support before the election and as he tried to overturn the results of the election.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-details-emerge-surrounding-federal-executions-under-trump-administration

[Evolve Dammit]

24. I think we are heading towards something we haven't seen before.

[Martin68]

14. Trump's plans to become an American Fhrer are showing through his orange veneer.

The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and other right-wing militias are his brown shirts, the police will be his Gestapo.

[riversedge]

15. " I highlighted all the parts where Trump describes implementing kristallnacht".............

@PiggyShitCock
I highlighted all the parts where Trump describes implementing kristallnacht / The Purge to rid society of shoplifters.

Read the highlighted parts only & you’ll see it’s hard to argue he’s not talking abt ordering police to shoot ppl for petty theft in order to “fix” it.

Link to tweet

[Harker]

18. +33.

I'm pretty sure Trumpsky is also aware of "The Night of the Long Knives", and would take great delight in ordering roundups and murders to settle scores and consolidate power.

[Roc2020]

16. Trump is unhinged desperate

at this point everyone except the cult will tune him out as a raging lunatic

[Evolve Dammit]

25. One would hope

[republianmushroom]

17. And, if, those convicted of fraud were to be jailed

for their crime, there would be a lot less fraud.

44 months and counting

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. FWIW, it wouldn't help

Large scale retail theft is usually run by organized crime, who hire drug addicts and the homeless. If they didn't have those people to do the dirty work, they would be out of business. If we worked on treating drug addiction and getting homeless people housed, they wouldn't have any "workers". It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than supporting the law enforcement industrial complex too.

It's also supported by people purchasing the stolen items on Facebook marketplace, Craigslist and eBay. If you want to cut down on retail theft, go after the folks selling the goods and DON'T BE A BUYER!

[Basso8vb]

26. Raising the fucking minimum wage would go a long way to help.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. THIS 👆👆👆

Since the fucking GOP loons here in the PA Senate refuse to raise the state's minimum wage, we are lower than EVERY STATE that borders PA including of all places, WV, because we default to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 that hasn't been raised since 2007.

[bmichaelh]

27. Shakespeare

MENENIUS
There is no more
mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
--Shakespeare, Coriolanus 5.4.28-29

[Evolve Dammit]

29. Such a unifying statesman

[twodogsbarking]

31. Like George Floyd?

He was just one. There are others.

[OldBaldy1701E]

33. Fine. Let's do so on the day that the orange gibbon is arrested.

Make sure they beat the everliving s**t out of him and drag him to each stop on the way to his cell. Make sure he gets beat up every day for the first week. Let him experience the stuff that he is calling for.

[Hotler]

34. And, a reminder, never ever talk to the cops without an attorney present. nt