“You have to arrest people and you have to try people. And they have to go to jail for long periods of time,” the president said.
That should have been what he said about the cops and civilians who think they’re Judge Dredd, killing unarmed people in the street. Every time an unarmed black man is shot dead when running away from a cop, there are countless online comments saying, “Then they shouldn’t run!” Avoiding arrest isn’t a crime punishable by death. George Floyd didn’t run, and none of the video shows him resisting.
“It’s a movement, if you don’t put it down it will get worse and worse,” Trump said. “The only time it’s successful is when you’re weak and most of you are weak.”
Why bother responding to the crisis? The protests will just magically disappear.
“You have to arrest people and you have to try people. And they have to go to jail for long periods of time,” — sounds like we can skip the trying part.