“By the way, they love African-American people. They love black people. MAGA loves the black people.”
—Trump at press conference Saturday.
“The front line was replaced with fresh agents, like magic. Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”
—Trump tweet about protesters at the White House, May 30, 2020.
“As a former woman in blue, let me begin with my brothers and sisters in blue: What in the hell are you doing?
“Law enforcement officers are granted remarkable power and authority. They are placed in complicated and dangerous situations. They respond to calls from people with their own biases and motives. In New York, we’ve recently seen past pains of the Central Park Five dredged up in a new attempt to misuse law enforcement against an African American man. When you see people differently, you treat them differently. And when power is in the mix, tragedy can result.”
—U.S. Rep. Val Demings (D-Florida), a former Orlando police officer, in a Washington Post op-ed, on Friday, May 29, 2020.
Ditto my remarks on the previous post about the Houston police officer.