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tblue37

(65,328 posts)
4. +1! They are on video. The communities they police can never trust them now.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 11:46 AM
Jul 2017

They need to be fired.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. We need ALL cops to have the courage of Officer Tobias...period.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 11:25 AM
Jul 2017

They need to be free to speak up and defend doing what's right....and to speak out against the misguided POTUS or just another misguided officer who feels that the thin blue line must be held at all costs.

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. Were the those cops so starstruck and awed by his Royal Nastiness that they
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 12:12 PM
Jul 2017

couldn't think straight? Whatever the reason they applauded a criminal act, I fault the politicians at all levels, the police officials and the union leaders who allowed those cops to be humiliated and exploited as Trump's stage props. They put those cops in a terrible situation and the blowback is not only hitting them, but the police in general. Now they have the press reflecting public fears and questions that no one will be safe if the whole police force, as represented by officers engaged in clapping and cheering for police brutality on camera. The public is right to worry that anyone could be subjected thuggery because Trump, the lawless president, endorsed roughing up anyone in police custody regardless of their guilt or innocence.

safeinOhio

(32,673 posts)
6. All they need to do is
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 12:23 PM
Jul 2017

follow their oath of office to the Constitution. I'm sure those that applauded have no idea what it says.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
10. Trump got rebuked by cops, and the Boy Scouts
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 01:26 PM
Jul 2017

Trump was trying to play "tough guy",
and got laughed at instead.

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