Trump, Policing, And Ethnic Slurs

It took a long time to get here. After decades of addressing police misconduct, and then taking the fight to the federal level with protests we all led around the police killings of Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and later Tamir Rice and others, we finally witnessed movement in the right direction. President Obama not only met with civil rights leaders and activists from around the nation, but he implemented The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. That task force made recommendations such as having officers wear body cameras and having the Department of Justice work out consent decrees with police departments around the country. Now President Obama’s successor has the DOJ interfere with consent decrees, and not only does he and his Attorney General say questioning police hurts moral, but this weekend he tells law enforcement to be rough when arresting suspects. This is not only a reversal of progress but it is dangerous and unacceptable behavior from the President of the United States.

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