“We are going to do something that I will say is slightly controversial but it shouldn’t be. We are going to indemnify policemen and precincts and states and cities from being sued. We want them to do their job. Our police and law enforcement has to come back and they want to come back and …
“We are going to do something that I will say is slightly controversial but it shouldn’t be. We are going to indemnify policemen and precincts and states and cities from being sued. We want them to do their job. Our police and law enforcement has to come back and they want to come back and they want to do their job. And we are going to indemnify them so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension, and their job. We are going to indemnify policemen and law enforcement. We are going to tell them to get out, we love you, do your job.” – Trump, speaking last night at the New York Young Republicans Club gala.
"we're gonna get all of the cops nice new uniforms and badges, cool badges with skulls on them, and we'll teach them all to march around the streets and round up all the undesirables!"
He wants police to be able to act without fear of personal consequences when he asks them to break the law. Imagine if you were asked to roll up and grab protest leaders off the street. He wants to make that decision easier for officers.
"And so we can distinguish our brave police who have taken up our indemnification, we've designed a new uniform for them. They will have brown shirts and ties. i like brown, you like brown, everybody loves brown. And we will want a really good name, the best name for our brave Brownshirts. I was thinking something like the Storm Division. What do you think, isn't that the greatest? I think it's the greatest."
There's a lot to unpack in this statement, but the short of it is that he's thinking like a terrorist- that the role of police is to instill fear and the thing keeping them from fulfilling it is that they fear being sued. He's telling his supporters that he wants cops to do crimes with impunity
Alright, so, real talk, this is an appeal directly to the people in police work who are in it for the authority (spoiler: too many, unfortunately), as well as to the asset owning class that depends on the police to keep them from losing their investments or worse. The message being sent is: vote for me, work for me, and you'll be free from accountability.
Stupid people really do think of the stupidest solutions to problems that don't exist.
The hard thing is hearing it over and over and over again. How many times has this shit already been tried? What was the result? Oh, you don't know? Does that not strike you as phenomenally negligent of a policy maker, to not be aware of the likely results of your fucking actions? Go die, you orange piece of shit. Or win, and take this fucking irreparable democracy with you.
Someone should explain qualified immunity to this chucklefuck. What's next, he gonna tell us he would fight a war with no rules so he would win every time?
How brain dead do you have to be to even listen to his ravings let alone follow him and think he is a leader.
I'm not really sure what liberals are all concerned about. Don't they have any faith that they can simply "fix" this inherently fascist institution - oops, sorry, I meant to say "law enforcement" - through "reform" and more "training?"
Wait, is he actually trying to say everything the opposite of what the majority of US citizens want? Like maybe he's actually trying to not win because he doesn't want to be president again. Or this is all a joke to see how evil he can be and still win.