Donald Trump fired for calling on state governors to crack down on protesters (File)
Washington:
President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to maintain funding for police in the United States amid calls for deep cuts to law enforcement budgets as protesters call for an end to police violence after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis last month.
“There will be no funding, there will be no dismantling of our police,” Trump said at a roundtable of national, federal and local law enforcement officials in the White House on Monday. “We want to make sure we don’t have bad actors in there … but 99% … of them are great people and have done work that sets records.”
Protesters’ anger over death of George Floyd, 46, on May 25, gives way to a growing movement to make his case a turning point in race relations and policing, some protesters and some Liberal Democrats calling for the reduction of police budgets.
But moderate Democrats have strayed from the proposal, including presumed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was verbally abused by protesters over the weekend after telling them he was opposed to their demands for cuts to city police.
At a White House press briefing earlier Monday, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that Trump “is dismayed at the funding of the police movement.” She noted that the president was “considering various” proposals in response to Floyd’s death, but did not provide any details on the measures he planned.
Democrats in Congress on Monday unveiled legislation that would make lynching a hate crime and allow victims of the police and their families to sue the police for damages in civil court, thereby ending known legal doctrine under the name of qualified immunity.
Trump fired fire for calling on state governors to crack down on the thousands of protesters against Floyd’s death in the country and threatening to send U.S. soldiers when he described himself as an ally of peaceful protesters.
McEnany said Monday that Trump believed there were “examples” of racism among the police, but added that the president viewed the police as a good person as a whole.
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