SANDERS SAYS TRUMP JOKING ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY
Source: Associated Press
Jul 31, 5:30 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House defended President Donald Trump's recent remarks that police shouldn't be too nice when transporting suspects, saying Monday that the president was "making a joke."
On a visit to Long Island. New York, last week, Trump implored police officers, "Please don't be too nice." He said some officers are too courteous to suspected criminals when arresting them.
"Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over" their head, he said, putting his hand above his head for emphasis. "I said, 'You can take the hand away, OK?"
His remarks prompted critics to accuse the president of encouraging police brutality.
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flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Let's suspend obvious reality that it was NOT a joke, for just a minute.
Isn't it incredibly irresponsible to tell such a "joke" to police officers given the rash of murders of unarmed, innocent people recently?
What a visionary leader. Best president ever.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)without an element of truth to it.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Aside from the fact she lies, she is also an awful, uninformed, uninteresting press secretary. What a tool, worse than Spicer.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,262 posts)But normal people don't joke about police brutality. EVER
CincyDem
(6,426 posts)...are those currently enjoying privilege that leads them to believe they will never be on the receiving end of said brutality.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)them up. Forget the trial. Just arrest whomever they don't like & rough them out.
I agree that if he was joking, of course,it's wrong.
At best, signals his take on justice.
George II
(67,782 posts)WinstonSmith00
(228 posts)Real funny... To a narcissitic sociopath..
The Wizard
(12,563 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)and Bernie along with these Sanders headlines. I wonder if they do it intentionally. It certainly gets me all riled up when I mistake the two. Especially when it's Huckabee and I think it's Bernie. After all, you never know what he's going to say. Lol.
Stuart G
(38,477 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)I expect this kinda comment from a Huckabee Sanders.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)In LBN the title is supposed to be the exact headline.
TexasTowelie
(112,860 posts)there is some leeway provided if it will clarify a headline. For example, if a title is "Governor Wins Primary" then it would be okay to insert the state name and/or political party for clarification. I would have altered it to say "Governor Wins Primary (Texas)" instead.
It's when the additions to the title result in editorializing that the hosts are more likely to lock the thread.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)a question without lying and spinning. That's what she does - and in that obnoxious, condescending, know-it-all voice. Can not stand her.
JHB
(37,170 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I'll have to remember it. Thanks!
Owens
(212 posts)If police departments are denouncing his speech, then it wasn't a joke
sandensea
(21,795 posts)An unqualified wink at all the bad cops out there - and a tacit warning to all the good cops to refrain from interfering.
riversedge
(70,580 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,614 posts)That's what they're up to, so confusing the public that they can do anything they want
Chemisse
(30,831 posts)But as in the past, it turns out they weren't.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)spike jones
(1,697 posts)A lie.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)And not a funny joke at all.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Kablooie
(18,658 posts)rzemanfl
(29,589 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)"Man, people need to start using Huckabee hyphen or Sara..."
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,606 posts)Sanders doesn't know the difference between "funny ha-ha" and "funny peculiar"
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,112 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)Does that make me humorless?
elleng
(131,600 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)elleng
(131,600 posts)icymist
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I'm not laughing Donald.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Oldest trick in the book for mobsters and thugs, after they are confronted with the statement, sometimes in court.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)maveric
(16,451 posts)moda253
(615 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,174 posts)We have a Sanders already. Bernie. There's no reason to introduce confusion into this.
Hopefully, she'll be fired like everyone else who works in the WH and replaced with someone with a less confusing name.
UpInArms
(51,299 posts)Don't jokes include laughter?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)joke about. Period.
Your daughter just got killed.
This movie is on fire.
I've got a gun to your head.
Never mind. We shouldn't even have to have this conversation with regard to the President.
Compare Obama.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,470 posts)That we clarify which "Sanders" we are talking about IMHO.
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