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ck4829

(35,077 posts)
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 06:04 AM Jan 2019

Remember when Trump actually endorsed police giving "rough rides" to arrested suspects?

Police should treat the people they arrest violently, President Donald Trump said Friday afternoon, encouraging cops to get “rough” when they toss people into a police vehicle.

Trump offered the praise for flagrant retributive violence by uniformed law enforcers during a wide-ranging speech to cops in Brentwood, New York. Officers present laughed and applauded in response.

“When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddywagon, you just see ’em thrown in rough. I said please don’t be too nice,” the president said, to a murmur of chuckles.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-rough-rides-police-brutality-43a3383b297/

Now compare that to Republicans clutching their pearls when the FBI arrested Roger Stone in a pre-dawn raid and demanding answers about why they did things a certain way.

I wonder white's the difference here. Hmmm...

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Remember when Trump actually endorsed police giving "rough rides" to arrested suspects? (Original Post) ck4829 Jan 2019 OP
Let me see malaise Jan 2019 #1
Whiney, Lying, hypocritical republicans have disgraced their party Achilleaze Jan 2019 #2
I had that exact same thought when they were discussing Roger Stone on MSNBC tonight... Rhiannon12866 Jan 2019 #3
being around stone defenders in real life is tiring. Kurt V. Jan 2019 #4
It might seem like a lot of police for one little Stone... TomVilmer Jan 2019 #5
The difference is black and white, isn't it. marble falls Jan 2019 #6
Wouldn't it be nice if the Orange Asshole got a rough ride when he is transported 3Hotdogs Jan 2019 #7

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. Whiney, Lying, hypocritical republicans have disgraced their party
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 06:23 AM
Jan 2019

And they wonder why their poll numbers are dropping?

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
5. It might seem like a lot of police for one little Stone...
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 07:53 AM
Jan 2019

... but when I was taken myself, in a quite small case in my own country, the Police came in about the same amount of force. And I also asked why they did not just politely call me down to the station.

According to what the Police believed they were coming for after me, they actually did what they had to do, and did it correctly. But they still was made to pay me compensation, when they finally found out how stupid their guesswork had been.

It is crazy downsideup times, when the left now are so fully supportive of all doings of the FBI. And even the case of this Stone should be revised properly, though it looks alright to me. It is always too hypocritically, when people only complain about possible wrongdoings on their own side of the aisle.

3Hotdogs

(12,390 posts)
7. Wouldn't it be nice if the Orange Asshole got a rough ride when he is transported
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 08:49 AM
Jan 2019

from court to jail?

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