Trump: Once I’m president, police officers will no longer be shot on the job

[DonViejo]

Donald Trump said that once he becomes president, police officers will no longer be shot on the job. "We're going to make our country safe again, and we're going to make our country great again," Trump said during a rally in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday night. "And we're going to have law and order, and we're going to respect our police, because you have to respect our police. We're not going to shoot our police. We're not shooting our police. It's never been so dangerous to be a policeman or woman. It's never been so dangerous."

Trump referenced the recent murders of on-duty police officers in Dallas and Louisiana, then promised the crowd: "It's going to stop, okay? It's going to stop. We're going to be law and order. It's going to stop."

Last year 123 police officers were killed in the line of duty, according to the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Recent years have seen far fewer deaths than in the 1970s, when more than 200 officers were killed several years in a row. In the first six months of this year, 20 officers were fatally shot in the line of duty, compared with 16 in the first six months of 2015, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. The Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has reported seeing the same dramatic increase.

Trump acknowledged that some police officers might also need to make some changes. An ongoing two-year study by The Washington Post found that the number of fatal shootings by officers increased from 465 in the first six months of last year to 491 for the same period this year.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/03/trump-once-im-president-police-officers-will-no-longer-be-shot-on-the-job/?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

[onehandle]

1. By MAGIC! nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. Exactly. Where'd you get that wand, Donnie?

It's amazing his supporters actually believe a president can just do whateverthefuck they want. Of course, since they've been brainwashed into believing President Obama has done all sorts of despotic things, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

No wonder Rs are working so hard to dismantle public education. Can't have their base getting too smart.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Impressive.

Of course he will never get to be President, and no one believes him anyway.

[unblock]

3. he will book police deaths on a different ledger and, there, see, no police deaths!

just going on his previous experience.

or maybe he'll declare bankruptcy, that seems to be a favorite solution to his problems.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Trump is full of shit.

Unless he is going to declare war on black people. His base wants that.

[scscholar]

5. How do you associate declaring war on black people with cops being shot?

Decided to expose your bias?

[underpants]

6. It's going to be startling when all the cars stop going over the speed limit

So we're not going to shoot our police but we're not shooting our police in the next breath?

[VulgarPoet]

7. So when are they gonna stop shooting us? eom

[whistler162]

8. And pot in every chicken

[anoNY42]

9. Tell the Repubs

Trump is coming for their guns!

[Hekate]

10. Trump's unicorns spit bullets from their horns and fart tear gas

[missingthebigdog]

11. Hmmm. Sounds like an anti-gun position.

Banning firearms, and seizing the ones in existence, would be the only way to keep this promise.

Wonder how the NRA feels about this?? Lol

[Glamrock]

12. So let it be written

(Or, so let it be uttered using the vocabulary of a 4th grader), so let it be done

[TeamPooka]

14. and everybody gets a hot trophy wife, maybe two! #TrumpCampaignPromises nt