«You can be a police officer for 15 years and all of a sudden you’re confronted. … People choke under those circumstances and they make a bad decision,» he said.
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday, President Trump compared police officers who shoot people to golfers who «choke» in a tournament and «miss a three-foot putt.» When discussing police officers killed on duty in recent days, the president told Ingraham «the police are under siege because of things — they can do 10,000 great acts, which is what they do, and one bad apple or a choker, you know, a choker, they choke,» Mr. Trump said. «Shooting the guy in the back many times,» he continued, «I mean, couldn’t you have done something different? Couldn’t you have wrestled him? You know, I mean, in the meantime, he might’ve been going for a weapon and you know, there’s a whole big thing there.» «But they choke,» the president continued. «Just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three-foot putt.
