Fmr. DHS Secretary: Law Enforcement Should ‘Protect’ Demonstrators, ‘De-Escalate Situations’

Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson says he wants to remind law enforcement officers that “part of your job is to protect the people who are demonstrating peacefully.” Aired on 6/1/2020.
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Fmr. DHS Secretary: Law Enforcement Should 'Protect' Demonstrators, 'De-Escalate Situations'

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  1. Meanwhile Trump is waiting for a Russian extraction team to helicopter him out of his bunker.

    1. @Clark Kent You mean the uranium we got back? Oh, right, it’s almost like it was a deal to refine the uranium. Moron.

    2. @Clark Kent “20% of our uranium that she sold to Russia for $145,000,000.”
      The uranium that we didn’t need that was sold to a nation that has nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants already. Real crime there. lol

    1. It is coming, and the many from my culture, in america, keep spurring it along. Hate to admit it, but it is so true. Looting and burning stores and cars because you hate racist cops…come on. We have been through this too many times with the worse outcomes.

  2. Is that the guy who want you have a war with Iran ?when you in battlefeild ,he is hidding in bunker

    1. We didn’t have a war with Iran because Trump projected strength. Democrats, like Obammy, draw Red Lines and then do NOTHING when they are crossed.

    2. Im watching Trump on TV right now walking outside the White House, then across the street to the Church the Democrats Burned. Sorry Snowflake. The person hiding in a basement is Slow Joe.

    3. Trump destroyed the JCPA nuclear limitation treaty we had with Iran, replacing it with nothing but threats and bluster, worked great for his mouth breathers who bought it as a “solution”.

  3. President Bonespurs hiding in the bunker calling on Military to save him…
    Have Trump lead the charge than.

    1. Tofy, “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.” – Trump – February 26th, 2018. after the Florida high school shooting, ………… words are cheap from the lips of a coward.

  4. Why don’t we see more of the peaceful protests? Their lives are in danger just by being there.

  5. 😕 when armed right-wingers stormed the Capitol building in Minnesota cops did nothing

    1. @Mathew Conrad Protesters only got violent after the police put out someone’s eye with a rubber bullet.

      What did they do to the armed men again? Oh, right, nothing.

    2. @Trump 2020 Stop crying *Bimbo.* You embarrassed your own ancestors. Typical radical *Nazi* fan. You fking *Bimbo* Nazis where Terrorists, just like Confids. They started a war against the OWN country to keep slavery.
      You fking *Bimbo boy*
      Oh and btw you 3rd worlder, Germanys HC4ALL system made 21 Billion Surplus contradicting anything your corrupt US politicans told you *BOOM*
      https://thegermanyeye.com/surplus-of-public-health-insurance-has-risen-to-21-billion-euros-3640
      😉

    3. @Drake Fire that is such b.s. that protesters only bcame violent because of that incident. So many came out just to be violent. Using that mans death as a smoke screen.

    4. @Drake Fire first you have no idea what mode I am in, you just choose to read it that way. Trust me, if I was angry I would call you out of your name, easily. Also, what truth have you given me. You just keep showing that you have the mind of a teenager.

  6. Please invoke ARTICLE 25 !
    We have a Failed Leadership in the time of Crises over and over and over, again…. Save this Nation.!

  7. De-Escalation has proven, repeatedly, to be safer for everyone involved.

    But no, most of the officers had to escalate.

    1. Why do people in the MSNBC comment section always find a way to bring up Trump when the story has little to nothing to do with Trump. Trump derangement syndrome ?

  8. Exactly! To protect and Serve!

    Not “Dominate” like bigot hiding in a bunker Trump says.

    1. So,,,, They should protect looters, and arsonists. What about the store owners who protects them from criminals. They need to make an example!

  9. The Republican Party Trump Administration has given this nation judicial and economic fascism. The result is clear. The fires now burning are the flames to remove this Republican Trump Administration, its fascist policies, its fascist judicial and evonomic policy’s which have decimated the American street for decades . Trump and his RICO operation of an Executive Branch and Cabinet must LEAVE OFFICE NOW

  10. Meanwhile the Divider in Chief and hypocrite is throwing fuel on the fire from behind twitter and hiding in his bunker.

    1. @Don Williams He just had American citizens tear gassed and stun grenades thrown at them while peacefully protesting so he could exit from hiding.

    2. @Don Williams Get over being Obama’s biatch. Atgolf Twitler responsible for the greatest failures of basic governance and basic leadership in modern times. Trump reign has brought Fire, pestilence and killing any trust in his Government with his toxic tweets, racial division, crass and vulgar rhetoric and erosion of norms and institutions and American Democracy.

    3. @Don Williams WTF happened to your ‘stable genius’ and Mr ‘I alone can fix this’ Seriously stop drinking the Trump Disinfectant Strategy.

    4. @Don Williams https://youtu.be/leMAOVItrPA
      After Ferguson and Baltimore Obama worked with police to change the way police interact with American citizens. Just like Trump got rid of Obama’s Global Health Security Agencies coordinating pandemics, and defunded the CDC and ignored the medical experts about Coronavirus he overturned the work done by Police Chiefs to see system change within their departments and instead gave them military grade weapons to be used on American citizens.

    1. John Brown Yet this started in a state that has a DEM Gov, DEM AG, DEM Mayor and a BLACK police Chief. Hmmmm

    2. The people came out and demanded the arrest of those officers and the government declined to be ruled by the people. That’s all that happened.

    1. Democrats are trying to destroy America just because they are losing power and all credibility…

  11. Police Chief Breaks Down After Describing How Richmond Rioters Torched Home with Children inside Then Blocked Fire Department

  12. On Saturday, Richmond Police Chief Will Smith was overcome with emotion detailing one of the worst acts of violence carried out in the city during the previous night’s rioting, over the death of George Floyd. According to Smith, rioters set fire to an occupied multi-family residence with a child inside, then repeatedly blocked firefighters’ access to the scene.
    THIS is not how you act to get things changed!

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