Misogynist dog whistle?

[Staph]

Is it just me, or is Trump sounding a dog whistle for misogynists today? In his speech in Cleveland Heights today, he takes on the female police officer who murdered Terence Crutcher. From the CNN website http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/21/politics/trump-police-shooting-response/, he said:

Trump began his response by praising police and noting he has been endorsed by several law enforcement groups, but added that "you always have problems."

"You have somebody in there that always makes a mistake, that's bad or that chokes," Trump said, using a term he often uses to describe somebody who falters under pressure.

Trump did not address Tuesday's shooting in Charlotte of Keith Lamont Scott, who police say was armed at the time he was fatally shot, but the Republican nominee did describe the video of the shooting of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Crutcher was unarmed when he was shot by a police officer.

"I must tell you, I watched the shooting in particular in Tulsa and that man was hands up, that man went to the car -- hands up -- put his hand on the car. To me, it looked like he did everything you're supposed to do," Trump said. "And he looked like a really good man -- and maybe I'm a little clouded because I saw his family talking about him after the fact ... but he looked like somebody who was doing what they were asking him to do."

"This young officer, I don't know what she was thinking. I don't know what she was thinking, but I'm very, very troubled by that and we have to be very careful," Trump said, referring to the officer who fatally shot Crutcher. The officer, Betty Shelby, is 42 years old.

Trump questioned whether Shelby got "scared" or if she was "choking."

"Did she get scared? Was she choking? What happened? But people that choke, maybe they can't be doing what they're doing," he said.

"Scared"? "Choking"? "But people that choke, maybe they can't be doing what they're doing"? Isn't that exactly the language that he uses to describe Hillary Clinton?

I've sent a note off to the Rachel Maddow Show, to see if they will look into this. To the best of my knowledge, Trump has never put down a police officer involved in the death of a black man or woman. But, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first case in the last year or so where the sole shooter was a policewoman, not a policeman.

Am I right, or am I right?

[applegrove]

1. Trump is the choker. He always tries to square things with the people he is talking to like any

dyslexic.

[Matrosov]

2. Crutcher didn't deserve to be executed

Doesn't matter if the executioner was a he or a she.

It's a strange stance for the Mango Messiah but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[kcr]

5. But if he's only decrying this cop because she's a woman, it's okay to point out that reason

I thought it was strange that he was calling out this police officer. Now that I hear she was a woman, it makes sense. It isn't defending her actions to say so.

[demigoddess]

3. he's trying to look even-handed by throwing the female officer under the bus.

if it were a male, they would all be defending him, but females are expendable.

[Control-Z]

4. The very second it came out of his

ugly ass piehole I thought it. He would never stand up for a black shooting victim - especially when a cop was the shooter. Except, of course, if the cop happened to be a woman. I've always wondered who he had more disdain for. African American men, or women in general. Now we know. My heart breaks for AA women, or any woman of color, really. Gawd, what a filthy, twisted, animal he is.

ETA: I'm not defending the female cop. Just pointing out how utterly horrifying Trump is.

[meow2u3]

6. He never called out a male cop who killed a black guy in cold blood

So this is a misogynist dog whistle.

Donnie, we weren't born yesterday!

[ecstatic]

7. That stood out to me too, actually.

I want that cop brought to justice, but it was interesting to see Trump be unusually critical of a cop for the first time.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Yep.

I doubt he would have even broached the subject had that cop not been a woman.