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micdotcom:

In MS-13 speech, Trump applauded for imploring police “not to be too nice” while arresting “thugs”

• BRENTWOOD, NEW YORK — Trump scored applause Friday while talking to police about the fight against the brutal MS-13 gang by saying he doesn’t mind if suspects get roughed up during arrests.
  
• “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.’ Like when you guys put somebody in the car, protecting their head, you know, the way you put [your] hand, like don’t hit their head, and they’ve just killed somebody… I said, ‘You can take the hand away, ok?’”
  
• Trump, whose tough talk won him applause from the uniformed officers assembled behind him at Suffolk County Community College, promised to “eradicate” MS-13. Read more (7/28/17 3:30 PM)

Handing military equipment to police departments is a mistake, for one thing, heavy vehicles use up more fuel and rip up public roads, not to mention it gives police a sense that they are soldiers invading foreign territory, not public servants who are supposed to protect and serve the people.

As for not being nice when arresting citizens, everyone is only suspected of a crime until they are convicted of a crime, asking police to brutalize citizens is illegal and immoral - but that’s Trump in a nutshell.

Now he’s overtly inciting police brutality against US Citizens, using heavy military technology.

Can we impeach the douchebag already?

Every cop who cheered and applauded should be fired.  They say it’s “a few bad apples” when the entire tree is rotten to the roots.