Donald Trump on Thursday night said that if he is elected president, he will sign an executive order mandating that anybody who kills a police officer gets the death penalty.
“One of the first things I do, in terms of executive order if I win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that will go out to the country — out to the world — that anybody killing a policeman, policewoman, a police officer — anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty,” Trump said at an event with the New England Police Benevolent Association, a police union, according to CNN. “It’s going to happen, OK?”
During his speech, the Republican presidential candidate also said he believes that police forces should have military-style equipment.
“We’ve got to let our police have the finest equipment and the finest training, and if we don’t, we’re making a tremendous mistake as a country,” he said, according to CNN.
The union endorsed Trump at the event.
This says more about the thuggishness of the police union than it does about Trump doubling down on marketing himself to angry white people.
And when police kill an innocent person? Probably no penalty.
I did not know the President could decide to order Americans killed for reasons that he or she thought justifiable. They should bring back the TV show “Justified” with Donald as the lead character.
It says more about how little Donald knows about how the legislative process works, and about federal vs. state jurisdiction.
I’m pretty sure there already are penalties in place for this crime. But yeah, we might as well get summary execution out there for the mobs to salivate over.
If people keep listening to this idiot there will be police killed when the riots he is inciting break out.