Trump suggests unilaterally disarming Black citizens
As part of his “outreach” to the Black community, Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “law and order candidate,” has weighed in on what he described as “violence in the Black community.” Trump’s solution is a return to controversial and ineffective “stop and frisk” policies that were once implemented in New York City. Said Trump: “You have […]
As part of his “outreach” to the Black community, Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “law and order candidate,” has weighed in on what he described as “violence in the Black community.” Trump’s solution is a return to controversial and ineffective “stop and frisk” policies that were once implemented in New York City.
Said Trump: “You have to have, in my opinion—I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago—I think stop-and-frisk. In New York City it was so incredible, the way it worked. Now, we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that could be one step you could do.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Trump obviously “has had no experience with policing, no experience with public safety.” Trump doesn’t seem to realize, or simply doesn’t care, that the “stop and frisk” policies in his hometown were ruled unconstitutional by a federal court in 2013, because they were found to disproportionately harass Black citizens and violate their rights rather than prevent crime.
Trump’s strategy of embracing a policy ruled to be racially discriminatory is hardly the way to woo the Black community. And Trump may not have considered that he’s proposing to trample on the Constitutional rights of another constituency that is very important to his candidacy: gun owners.
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When Rolling Stone proclaimed that “Donald Trump doesn’t believe in the Constitution,” they were almost correct. Rolling Stone made an exception for the Second Amendment. But Trump has proven that he doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment, either.
White gun owners, however, aren’t the intended targets of Trump’s proposal. And they know they aren’t likely to have their guns taken away by law enforcement on the streets of a major city. This is another one of Trump’s dog whistles: Pretending to protect Black citizens while effectively stripping away their rights and dignity.
As with “Stand Your Ground” measures, Trump’s discredited approach reflects the broader double standard in which gun laws are unequally applied. For Black citizens, Donald Trump’s America would be a police state, not the land of the free.
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