President Trump delivered remarks on law enforcement at Suffolk Community College on Friday.
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Mark Berman THE WASHINGTON POST JULY 30, 2017
Police leaders across the country moved quickly to distance themselves from — or to outright condemn — President Trump’s statements about ‘‘roughing up’’ people who’ve been arrested.
The swift public denunciations came as departments are under intense pressure to stamp out brutality and excessive force that can erode the relationship between officers and the people they police – and cost police chiefs their jobs.
Some police leaders worried that three sentences uttered by the president during a Long Island, New York, speech could upend nearly three decades of fence-mending since the 1991 Los Angeles Police Department beating of Rodney King ushered in an era of distrust of police.
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