Trump Issues Executive Order Ramping Up American Police State [View all]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-executive-order-law-enforcement-1235327251/

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During Donald Trump‘s final weeks of his 2024 re-election campaign, he fantasized about “one really violent day” of policing as an answer to eradicating crime in America. Speaking to supporters gathered at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, in late September, Trump mused, “One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know?”

On Monday, as he prepared to celebrate his 100th day back in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order ramping up his efforts to embolden law enforcement across the country and shield them from accountability. The president instructed his administration to “unleash high-impact local police forces; protect and defend law enforcement officers wrongly accused and abused by State or local officials; and surge resources to officers in need.”

Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch a program providing free legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing, while also ordering his administration to increase the supply of “excess military and national security assets” to local law enforcement.

In one paragraph of the order, the Attorney General and associated agencies are instructed to “maximize the use of Federal resources” to support state and local law enforcement training, increased pay for officers, enhanced sentences for crimes against law enforcement, and “investment in the security and capacity of prisons.”

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