Trump to Law Enforcement: ‘Please Don’t Be Too Nice’
President Donald Trump‘s message to cops: Don’t be too nice.
During an address in Brentwood, NY Friday to a crowd which included many uniformed police officers, the President called for law enforcement to cease protecting the heads of suspects they’ve arrested as they put them in squad cars.
“When you see these thugs thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see ’em thrown in. Rough,” Trump said. “I said ‘Please. Don’t. Be. Too. Nice.’ Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know? The way you put their hand over, 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,’ Okay?”
The remark was met with laughter and cheers by the officers who, throughout Trump’s address, appeared to be very much on board with what the President was saying.
Trump has, on numerous occasions, encouraged violence at his political rallies. At a February 2016 rally in Iowa, he told his supporters to “knock the crap” out of protestors.
Now, we’re getting them out anyway, but we’d like to get them out a lot faster. And when you see these towns and 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. (Laughter.) Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over? 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, okay? (Laughter and applause.)
It’s essential that Congress fund hundreds more federal immigration judges and prosecutors — and we need them quickly, quickly — if we’re going to dismantle these deadly networks. And I have to tell you, you know, the laws are so horrendously stacked against us, because for years and years they’ve been made to protect the criminal. Totally made to protect the criminal, not the officers. If you do something wrong, you’re in more jeopardy than they are. These laws are stacked against you. We’re changing those laws. But in the meantime, we need judges for the simplest thing — things that you should be able to do without a judge. But we have to have those judges quickly. In the meantime, we’re trying to change the laws.
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