{"id":42984,"date":"2020-06-02T01:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42984"},"modified":"2020-06-02T01:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:04:42","slug":"still-no-outrage-over-police-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42984","title":{"rendered":"Still no outrage over police conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23GeorgeFloyd%20%23Icantbreathe&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/don-and-george.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42985\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/don-and-george-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/don-and-george-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/don-and-george.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Floyd&#8217;s death has sparked a national protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>People are marching in streets calling for the police across the land to examine closely the practices they use to arrest and detain African-Americans. The concern is legitimate. Yes, many of these demonstrations have gotten out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is the &#8220;out of hand&#8221; element that has drawn the exclusive attention of Donald John Trump, who today made a public statement about the reaction to Floyd&#8217;s death while he was being arrested by Minneapolis police officers &#8212;<em> for allegedly seeking to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cops killed Floyd. They snuffed the life out of him by using tactics that other officers acknowledge are not part of the training manual section that describes arrest techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump instead took dead aim at the more violent reaction to this hideous event. The Numbskull in Chief didn&#8217;t say a single word today about the conduct of the officers. He offered nothing in the way of acknowledgement that the officer who crushed Floyd&#8217;s windpipe with knee has been charged correctly with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has appealed yet again to the darker instincts of a riled-up nation. He said governors need to get tough &#8230; <em>or else<\/em>. Trump said he will mobilize the military. He bellowed about being the &#8220;law and order&#8221; president.<\/p>\n<p>My goodness. We need someone in the Oval Office who can appeal to our better angels, not to our darker impulses.<\/p>\n<p>This guy makes me sick.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23GeorgeFloyd%20%23Icantbreathe&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Floyd&#8217;s death has sparked a national protest movement. People are marching in streets calling for the police across the land to examine closely the practices they use to arrest and detain African-Americans. The concern is legitimate. Yes, many of these demonstrations have gotten out of hand. Still, it is the &#8220;out of hand&#8221; element &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still no outrage over police conduct<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688,13],"tags":[1424,9375,3806],"class_list":["post-42984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-floyd","tag-racial-unrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42986,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984\/revisions\/42986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}