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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRetired Police Detective: Trump's Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are "Treasonous"
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/31/retired_police_detective_trumps_comments_endorsingFor more, were joined by two guests. Maya Wiley is with us. She is chair of the New York Civilian Complaint Review Board and senior vice president for social justice at The New School. Graham Weatherspoon is with us. Hes a retired detective with the New York City Police Department. Hes also a board member of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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AMY GOODMAN: Graham Weatherspoon, lets begin with you. Your response to what President Trump said?
GRAHAM WEATHERSPOON: I think that we assume that we should be shocked by some of the things we hear coming out of this mans mouth, but we must say there is a level of consistency with regard to his deprivation of morals and ethics.
Lets not forget that the chief of police in Suffolk County was sent to federal prison for brutalizing a prisoner, who was alleged to have stolen some material from his vehicle last year. And also, subsequent to that arrest, in Allentown, he was found to have some narcotics in his cell. The fish stinketh from the head.
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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Maya Wiley, I wanted to ask you, theif you could speak to not only the remarks that the president made, but he was really speaking to the culture of policing, rather than the rules and regulations and the laws, because, as you well know from all the cases that you deal with at the CCRB in New York, the issue of reforming the culture of policing is really at the heart of changing how communities and their police departments relate to each other.
MAYA WILEY: Oh, thats absolutely right. So, lets start withand I absolutely agree that the comments were shameful, and theyre dangerous, because hes actually espousing a position that is encouraging police to violate the U.S. Constitution, the laws of New York state, and probably the patrol guide of the Suffolk County Police Department, certainly the patrol guide of the New York City Police Department.
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Retired Police Detective: Trump's Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are "Treasonous" (Original Post)
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(267,455 posts)1. But but but his press secretary says it was a joke
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