...The internet recoils in horror as Trump asks cheering cops for brutality

[DonViejo]

‘Problem isn’t a few bad apples’: The internet recoils in horror as Trump asks cheering cops for brutality

Police officers cheered as President Donald Trump urged them to use petty violence against suspected criminals — and social media users reacted in outrage and horror.

“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,” Trump told police officers Friday during a speech in Long Island.

“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,” he added. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”

Twitter users weren’t sure whether to be more appalled by the president or the police officers who roared in approval.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/problem-isnt-a-few-bad-apples-the-internet-recoils-in-horror-as-trump-asks-cheering-cops-for-brutality/

[Vinca]

1. If there is any justice in this world, Trump will one day occupy a jail cell.

I hope the guards are mean.

[MindPilot]

13. No inmate should be subjected to that!

Honorable, decent, upstanding criminals should not be forced to associate with such lowlife scum. Being incarcerated with Trump or any of his henchmen would be an egregious human rights violation.

[marybourg]

2. Paddy Wagon? You mean the wagon we throw Paddy into?

You know, the drunken Irishman?




Doesn't this a**hole know ANYTHING? Or care about anything? Well I guess that question answers itself.

[karynnj]

3. This is not new - he did this throughout the campaign

He cheered on people attacking anyone against him. In many places the videa looked terrifying. I have never seen a candidate for any office cheer on violence.

Beyond inciting violence, his strange idea that he can get the police to act against citizens is pathetic - even when it is far less outrageous than his comments today. Even when it seemed like he wanted to make it a joke - like when he demanded police, who ignored him, take the coats of protestors as they were thrown out in the winter, this is absolutely inappropriate.

[MountCleaners]

21. Because a lot of his supporters are probably violent

And he's smart enough to know that. He's deliberately pandering to them. I've said this before - a lot of Trump's supporters probably have anger management issues and a history of violence and abuse.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-is-setting-us-free-white-supremacists-celebrate-reports-that-trump-will-dial-down-scrutiny-136039e12fad

[procon]

4. Trump is turning this country into dictator ruled, banana republic. nt

[lunasun]

5. I dunno by the applause and cheering looks like Trump is just an add on to a bad situation that

already exists among LEOs

[Solomon]

6. He's telling police to be

Judge, jury and executioners.

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. And when you think the week could not get uglier, there you go.

[smirkymonkey]

8. And his cult of deplorables cheer.

This man is sick beyond belief.

[raccoon]

9. Trump appeals to people's basest instincts.

Another reason to despise him, and to despise those evangelicals who supported, and continue to support, this decidedly un-Christlike person.

[gratuitous]

10. You know, it's that 90% of cops that give the rest of them a bad name

Freddie Gray wasn't an accident.

[WinkyDink]

14. Trenchant.

[Blue_true]

15. Cops that are cheering that man don't realize that adherence to the rule of

law is the only thing that protects them. They would get completely outgunned otherwise.

[MindPilot]

11. Every day another layer of veneer peels off....

And we see clear validation of what we've always known.

So fuck the police--they hate us, and shouldn't be the least bit surprised when the violence they advocate is returned.

Cops are bunch of fucking ignorant brutes who deserve about the same level of respect as a cockroach.

[Blue_true]

16. I think we are going to see a lot of police getting killed.

When people watch video of them rabidly cheering Trump, who can trust them? Thugs that will do life anyway or get the needle will start deciding to take their chances in shootouts rather than give up. Conduct like the cops showed builds hatred. If they think they can outgun the public, they are fucking wrong. The only thing that keeps them alive is people, regardless of the community basically obeys the law, take that away and you get lots of dead cops.

[spanone]

12. the only amendment the con admires is the 2nd cause it get's cheers at campaigns

he has no clue about individual rights.

sick fuck.

[USALiberal]

17. I don't blame Trump as much as the idiot cops clapping! Disgusting! n/t

[uponit7771]

18. THEY FUCKIN CLAPPED WHEN HE SAID IT !! Now some defense attorney is going to play this vid over and

... over again.

[Greywing]

19. I hope he remembers this speecch when they show up to arrest him!

Maybe they'll give him a whack in the head with the door.

[judesedit]

20. The recipe for more dead civilians and more dead cops

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Is TV news recoiling in horror too?

I damn well hope so. There should be mainstream commentators pointing out he's suggesting police brutality, and wanting to change the law to allow it.

[sarcasmo]

23. Twisted sick F**K. #25thAmendmentNow