President Trump told law enforcement leaders at the White House in the wake of protests over the killing of George Floyd that he opposes a…
President Trump told law enforcement leaders at the White House in the wake of protests over the killing of George Floyd that he opposes a movement to abolish police and that he believes 99 percent of officers are “great people.”
“We won’t be defunding our police. We won’t be dismantling our police, and there’s not going to be any disbanding of our police. Our police have been letting us live in peace,” Trump told a roundtable of nationwide police leaders.
Many Democratic officials, including New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are endorsing an effort to redirect police funds, and a majority of the Minneapolis city council this weekend vowed to abolish their police department.
“I just see in some of the papers they want to end the police department — ‘end the police department’ in Minneapolis, end it. What does that mean, ‘end’ it?” Trump said.
“We want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there and sometimes you’ll see some horrible things, like we witnessed recently,” Trump said. “But 99, I say 99.9, but let’s go with 99 percent of them are great people and they’ve done jobs that are record setting — record setting — so our crime statistics are at a level that they haven’t been at.
