President Donald Trump on Monday denounced calls to defund police in the United States during a round table with law enforcement officials.
June 8 (UPI) — President Donald Trump dismissed calls to defund police and praised the nation’s officers during a roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials on Monday.
Trump responded to calls to defund police sparked by the police-involved killing of Geroge Floyd in Minneapolis, where city council members over the weekend pledged to disband the police department.
« There won’t be defunding, there won’t be dismantling of our police and there is not going to be any disbanding of our police, » said Trump.
The president went on to say that he believes a vast majority of police officers do their jobs properly and only some bad actors must be dealt with.
« 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, but 99 — I say 99.
