President Trump Pledges To Maintain Funding For Police Departments

On Monday, President Donald Trump pledged to maintain funding for police departments in the United States, despite a movement for cuts to law enforcement budgets or even the total disbanding of departments.

“There won’t be defunding, there won’t be dismantling of our police,” President Trump told a roundtable of state, federal, and local law enforcement officials at the White House on Monday. “We want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there, but 99 percent of them are great great people and have done jobs that are record setting.”

 
 

Protests and riots over the May 25 death of George Floyd are giving way to a growing movement to make his case a turning point in race relations and policing, with some protesters and some Democrats calling for either police budgets to be slashed or the total disbanding of police departments. Moderate Democrats have distanced themselves from the proposal, including presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was jeered by protesters over the weekend after telling them he opposed their demands for cuts in the city’s police department.

 
 

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Trump “is appalled by the defund the police movement.” She noted that the President is “taking a look at various” proposals on how policing can be done in a “much more gentle fashion.”

 
 


 
 

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