It would be nice if all of the mayhem and ruthlessness released by cops forces throughout the nation over the previous week could be blamed on President Donald Trump
It would be good because it would be simple. One male’s cartoonish cruelty would be responsible for a society falling apart. The solution would be straightforward: Remove him from workplace and let the world naturally go back to stability and consistency.
Trump has certainly encouraged violence against protesters, and he can not leave fault for the vivid disaster now unfolding in the United States. We can not pin all of this on the president, however monstrous his failures. On Saturday night, when Minneapolis cops fired rubber bullets at reporters and New york city police attempted to run down protesters in an SUV, they were acting under the authority of Democratic mayors and governors. New York City Mayor Costs de Blasio’s full-throated defense of the violent excesses of his police force varied from Trump’s fevered strongmanism only in tone, not content.
” I do believe the NYPD has acted appropriately,” de Blasio said Saturday night “I saw a lot of restraint under very, really difficult scenarios.”
And so it has been throughout much of the nation. The major policy choices that have actually led to this epidemic of police brutality– from macroeconomic management to police procurement– have actually been bipartisan.
For Black communities, the American policing crisis has actually constantly been obvious. New York cops fired 41 shots at an unarmed Amadou Diallo in front of his own apartment or condo in 1