Drumpf Killed Obama’s Police Reforms. Now He’s Getting What He Asked For.

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[SIZE=7]Trump Killed Obama’s Police Reforms. Now He’s Getting What He Asked For.[/SIZE]
By Jonathan Chait
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President Donald Trump shaking hands with Minneapolis Police Union head Bob Kroll. Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Last October, Minneapolis Police Union president Bob Kroll appeared at a Trump rally. Clad in his red “Cops for Trump” T-shirt, Kroll (who has been alleged to be affiliated with white supremacists) gloated that the president had unshackled his officers from the restraints imposed by Trump’s predecessor. “The Obama administration and the handcuffing and oppression of police was despicable,” he told the crowd. “The first thing President Trump did when he took office was turn that around, got rid of the Holder-Loretta Lynch regime and decided to start takin— letting the cops do their job, put the handcuffs on the criminals instead of us.”
We will never know if that unshackling emboldened Derek Chauvin to murder George Floyd. But the line between the relief demanded by Kroll on behalf of Minneapolis police, and the naked assassination committed on camera by one of his officers, is quite direct. The world around us, in which the streets of every major American city are filled with protesters, is the result of Trump granting the wishes of the most retrograde police officers. They are getting what they asked for.

The last few years of the Obama administration were one of the most productive periods of criminal justice reform in American history. The Obama administration changed sentencing guidelines to reduce the disparity in the treatment of drug crimes that had disproportionately harmed black defendants. As part of an effort to inculcate a “guardian, not a warrior” mindset, it restricted the transfer of surplus military equipment to police departments. Most importantly, it formed consent decrees with more than a dozen police departments to force them to change their practices.
These reforms did not root out brutality and racism. They were mild both in form and intent, undertaken with the goal of conciliating police and their communities, believing that enhancing trust would ultimately create safer conditions for police as well as those who fear them. It was the epitome of evolutionary cultural change.
This was the context for Trump’s nightmarish claims in 2016 that cities were being overtaken by bloodshed and carnage. Whatever wisps of data he could cite to support his wild rhetoric, Trump was drawing a picture borrowed from the imaginations of resentful police who experienced Obama’s carefully drawn nudges as intolerable oppression.
He reversed them swiftly. Trump’s first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ended the restriction on transferring military equipment to police, reviewed all consent decrees struck by his predecessor, and then restricted their use going forward. “It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies,” he insisted.

When William Barr took over for Sessions — whom Trump fired for refusing to violate Justice Department guidelines — there was nothing left of the Obama reforms to undo. Still, Barr continued to rail against the specter of criminal justice reform. Barr presented the reform movement, now confined to local officials, as a civilizational threat. “There is another development that is demoralizing to law enforcement and dangerous to public safety,” he railed last August, “that is the emergence in some of our large cities of district attorneys that style themselves as ‘social justice’ reformers, who spend their time undercutting the police, letting criminals off the hook, and refusing to enforce the law.” (Letting criminals off the hook is only acceptable if Barr is doing it himself.)
In another, even more unhinged speech two months later, Barr warned, “If communities don’t give [police] that support and respect, they might find themselves without the police protection they need.” The enthusiastic assent of both Sessions and Barr indicates how broadly reflective Trump’s agenda is within his party. Trump’s hatred of criminal justice reform is not just bleating from an old racist who still thinks the Central Park Five were guilty. It is party doctrine.
And it was not enough for Trump and his supporters merely to uproot the seedling of criminal justice reform. Trump felt obliged as well to clamp down on peaceful protest. When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality, Trump intimidated owners into blacklisting him from their rosters, even boasting of his success. Trump dispatched Mike Pence to stage a walkout from an NFL game when players kneeled, and prevailed upon the league to stamp out the kneeling altogether.

It probably gives Trump far too much credit to presume this is a strategy. But there is a crude logic to his actions. He has snuffed out the peaceful, democratic avenues for evolutionary change, while goading the most violent police officers and offering them unconditional support. He is all but calling forth into the streets the very brutality he claimed would be necessary. If a militarized and unshackled police seemed excessive to many Americans three years ago, Trump now has conditions that might make it appear necessary to some.
What Trump and Barr cannot say to the protesters now is that they should try working through the system instead. They snuffed out every avenue of bureaucratic and social change. They sowed the wind and now reap the whirlwind.

What’s certain from reading various commentaries, is that many Americans who were undecided about November have now made up their minds to vote for Trump after seeing the madness unfold this past weekend. The choice is very clear: give me liberty or give me liberals (death).

Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, New York have one thing in common–all Democrat-controlled cities! What we saw is the radical left cannibalizing their very own people and businesses, destroying what little was left from the pandemic. We are living in desperate times already but to take all that wealth and destroy it in 1-2 days, those small businesses are never coming back. Tough luck!

:smiley: Don’t make me laugh. You’ve actually repeated this so many times, until you believed it? You guys have a thought process that continually repeating your theories will make it true. On the contrary, the undecided have seen drumpfs incompetence and are tired of him. Only the cult members remain loyal, as usual.

By Jonathan Chait
” T-shirt, Kroll (who has been alleged to be affiliated with white supremacists) gloated that the president had unshackled his officers from the restraints imposed by Trump’s predecessor. “The Obama administration and the handcuffing and oppression of police was despicable,” he told the crowd. “The first thing President Trump did when he took office was turn that around, got rid of the Holder-Loretta Lynch regime and decided to start takin— letting the cops do their job, put the handcuffs on the criminals instead of us.”… reap the whirlwind.
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Nuff said. You cant run a country with your police in cuffs. Cops tend to have issues with criminals.

I actually want Trump to win.
not because I like him, coz in him I see the downfall of America, it will mean end of so many wars in the world. We might actually see peace in our time

Trump did not cause America’s downfall, rather it’s the deep state who have orchestrated chaos. There’s so much at stake especially with China, Russia and the military industrial complex. They want him out of office like yesterday!

There is no deep state, that’s an excuse for the lazy. its all about leadership.
hope next time you wont say its the Freemasons and the Illuminati

Its his actions and inaction that is showing the world how dangerous it is to trust one nation to hold the world together.

Do you believe there’s a deep state in Kenya? If you never thought so, have the recent political developments informed your mind? These things are real, they are not a figment of our imagination. The deep state is a powerful group of shadowy characters who have significant stakes with the Presidency of a country. They can go to any lengths to influence the outcome of an election in their favor.

there is no deep state in kenya, the government is a system that has been setup so as to provide services to the people manned by the civil service. politicians are elected as the public oversight of this system and the two should be separate. when the politicians try to interfere with the public service system that’s when they see it as a deep state.
The problem with Kenya is the corruption, one needs the other so as to steal and to hide the loot, so the politicians try to control it by controlling corrupt individuals who hold high positions. case in mind is James Gichuru of KPLC or whatever his name was, run down a monopoly and the powers that be let him coz then they could strike a deal with him to import generators and sell power to KPLC

:smiley:

This BIIITch is sooo desperate to lick white asshole and get white validation; SHe speaks more"passionately" than the people who actually were born there, claiming to be more patriotic than them and feigning it comes from the heart…!!! Bitch Please.
If cops stop you today, they fucking shoot you or choke your and your BLACK face. You ain’t any different just because you desperately need to feel validated and the fact that you are a rascal from central Kenya trying to compete with the Joneses. I bet you think you better than other Blacks and Kenyans just because you walk side by side with white arses/? Very sick .Jichunguze madam…You disgust me

Ona huyu. Do you know how many times I’ve been stopped by LILLY WHITE cops na bado niko hapa? Twice they let me go with a warning. Mind you I was doing 100 in a 65mph zone. So don’t tell me what will happen, I’ve been stopped already and none of your silly fantasies materialized. Your comment like with many others is so ignorant it’s astounding to me that you’re alive.

so we can conclude that russia and china are that powerful?

Now they are…because we have traitors who sold this country in exchange for the $$.

And who is the top traitor, drumroll please… Your very own drumpf. You continually max your irony stats, tone down on em a little bit.

Horse shite. Why is it that trump supporters don’t see his negative attributes? If he, Trump, had the guts, he would have the best presidency right now considering that his predicessor had made good progress in cleaning up the image of the US, but trump thinks USA is about him, his minions deliberately screwing the system, and his supporters merry about it.
The US is just an average alley cat with some coin.

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It’s a cult bro. Drumpf would tell them to jump into the ocean while he watches grinning like the evil mofo he is, and they would follow through. Drumpf does things to only benefit himself. Apart from his cult members, everyone else has come to that realization.

Some of the reasons you hate Trump. He be like:

  1. If you are illegal immigrant, get the fakk outta here. Now. We dont need illegals. Close the fakking borders.
  2. There is no free lunch, no free loading. If you want to freeload on USA, fakk off. Fakk UN. Fakk WHO scum gloated on USA dollars and fartin on US face. Fakkem!
  3. Fakk China. Fakk technology theft! Fakk lopsided trade balance. Fakk lopsided tarrif policies
  4. Fakk exporting jobs, fakk dem Americam companies exporting jobs out of USA
  5. Fakk Iran. In fact, fakk Suleimani (oh, sorry, I forgot I fakkin droned the murdering SOB Suleimani, heheheee, but someone had to do it needed doing. I did it. Any questions?) Fakk Iraq.
  6. Fakk criminals, black and white. Fakk anyone mud-slinging on dem cops.
  7. FAKK DA MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!! Pretending to be pro-American and inciting, castigating, insulting, whining, hating, useless fake news media. Fakkem.
  8. And now, lets talk some business, lets reshape the tax policy…BIGTIME! Lets improve trade policy, lets help American enterprise, lets see something good happening on the market, lets get some fakkaz working, we need us some healthy job market…let us capitalize! Fakk communism, fakk socialism…fakk freeloadin! Let us improve the economy.

Is why you hate fakka.