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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI didn't watch Trump at the police memorial ceremony...
For obvious reasons, of course. I just ate.
Im wondering, however, if any of you did, and if so, other than his routine of harping on his own rampaging narcissism, did he also go out his way to incite racist white paranoia by smearing black and brown bodies as cop killers?
Were he to actually remark upon the demographics of cop killers, I would never expect him to point out the fact that the vast majority are white males, right?
Anybody?
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I didn't watch Trump at the police memorial ceremony... (Original Post)
MrScorpio
May 2018
OP
I have the radio going all day so I heard him but didn't listen. I will say that I heard a lot of
Kirk Lover
May 2018
#3
He had a black family onstage with him, who lost their daughter, mother etc. in NYC.
Tipperary
May 2018
#4
Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)1. Sorry. I turned the channel the second I saw his face.
MattP
(3,304 posts)2. Turned on the mute
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)3. I have the radio going all day so I heard him but didn't listen. I will say that I heard a lot of
applause and some of it seemed to linger on for a ridiculous amount of time - as usual.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)4. He had a black family onstage with him, who lost their daughter, mother etc. in NYC.
She was a cop, a black woman, who was ambushed and murdered. I do not know the race of her killer. Easy enough to look up.