Donald Trump assured that he will not cut funds for the police as protesters demand: “We must do the opposite”

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Thursday that your administration will not cut funds available to the police, a demand that grows between protesters protesting against the institution’s alleged racism and violence, and that on the contrary More resources for training and equipment will be awarded.

“There are some who try to create divisions and promote an extremist agenda that we are not going to accept”, He began by saying Trump at an organized work table in Dallas, Texas, destined to discuss a possible reform of the security forces after the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer who suffocated him with his knee during an arrest.

“This includes radical efforts to underfund, dismantle and disband the police. They want to get rid of the police, really, “Trump said.” Instead, we must go in the opposite direction. We must invest more energy and resources in police training ”, Trump expressed. “We must respect and care for our police, they protect us, and if they are allowed to do their job they will do it very well,” he added.

“There is always a bad apple no matter where you go, but there are not many in the police department,” he said.

Participants from the work table held this Thursday at the Dallas Gateway Church members of the security forces and religious communities, as well as small local merchants, in addition to Trump and his collaborators.

Police in focus

The protests that erupted in recent weeks over the Floyd murder now have more specific demands, such as the “Defund the Police”(Remove funds from the police). Throughout the week, the demonstrations have focused on this phrase and have compared the equipment that the police have used to stop the protests (such as helmets, masks, shields, and bulletproof vests), with medical personnel who have fought coronavirus without a face mask and even with garbage bags as personal protective equipment.

Some more claim a reorientation of public resources, with less money for the security forces and more for prevention through social programs, of education or of fight against poverty.

Others want to go much further and they seek the closure of police departments, so that its functions are assumed by other agencies. The concept is not new, since activist groups have been using it for years as the best response to police violence, but after the racist death of George Floyd in Minneapolis (Minnesota), it has become popular and today resonates strongly in the demonstrations.

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