Obviously Trump has used and/or misused the Steinle tragedy to discuss policy issues, immigration and sanctuary cities, mainly.
What's the angle on Sterling? Police brutality, injustice, etc. are all valid topics to press the administration on, but Sterling is a particularly poor example to use for that. I'm sure the administration doesn't want to say "It was a justified shoot" and I don't blame them, even though it looks like it probably was.
I’m mainly pointing out the hypocrisy, Trump hasn’t let “it is a local issue” stop him from wading into anything else, including getting into arguments with London’s mayor over his policies .
Yet Trump has been very silent on even the most obvious miscarriages of domestic justice, like Castile. We both agree that these are very valid topics for him to discuss so if he believes that the proper procedures were followed in the Sterling case I don’t see why Trump shouldn’t comment on that, rather than a transparent dodge like this.
FWIW I have seen many people disagree with the notion that Sterling was a “justified shoot”, primarily given that there were two cops with tasers/spray/batons lots of options available without using lethal force and that he wasn’t an active threat despite resisting arrest. This conservative lawyer from North Carolina being one.
However I haven’t watched the video myself and am not going to as find them too distressing.
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