Posted on 06/04/2016 4:28:53 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — This Silicon Valley city and its police department are facing mounting complaints of a tepid and tardy law enforcement response to attacks of Donald Trump supporters after a political rally.
Videos circulating online show physical clashes occurring in front of San Jose police officers dressed in riot gear and standing stoically in a line outside the convention center where Trump spoke. Critics also complained that assaults occurred on side streets near the venue that lacked police presence.
“Potentially more could have been done,” said San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, chairman of the council’s public safety committee.
The questions about the San Jose police response came while Trump launched a rally Friday afternoon in Redding, California, a politically conservative city 350 miles north of San Jose. Trump called those who attacked his supporters Thursday night a “bunch of thugs.”
San Jose police chief Eddie Garcia commended his officers’ response to the violence after the Thursday night rally, saying the 250 officers on hand showed “discipline and restraint.”
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Trump can fire him later
They are to be commended for not putting their officers in any kind of danger, just standing there with their backs against the wall, watching innocent people get punched, beat up and assaulted.
Both of them?
Chief Garcia was quoted elsewhere saying (in so many words) that the reason the police did not stop the Mexicans from attacking the Americans was that he didn’t want his officers to be injured.
Someone could lie to the cops and tell them that all the Soros paid thugs had run through red light cameras.
The cops would be shakin' 'em all by the ankles.
Cops always like to say something like “I’m going home at the end of my shift” Well, they ought to append that to say “ I’m not getting involved and then I’m going home at the end of my shift.”
>>> San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, a Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, criticized Trump for coming to cities and igniting problems that local police departments had to deal with. <<<<
Local residents need to boot the mayor out with this kind of attitude. But they probably won’t, since the partisan mayor was elected in the first place.
Thugs?! That's racist! (The left told me so).
““Potentially more could have been done,””
More potentiality of boot in the ass of that trashy town’s city government.
Cops didn’t want to get hurt.
Can the people attacked sue the city of San Jose?
Can Trump just pay for his own riot patrol force and just tell the police they are not needed since they don’t do anything anyway? That would put the left into a tailspin for sure.
I was there, left before the real craziness started.
There were cops everywhere, just standing around.
They get paid well for standing around.
Do nothing and then pretend to care about it later worked great in Albuquerque. I think you are going to see a lot of this proven tactic.
the phrase “physical clashes” in the article would make the uninformed reader assume there was some mutuality, that a “clash” between two sides too place
these were one-way, unprovoked, vicious assaults without warning..... often from behind....
“ I’m not getting involved and then I’m going home at the end of my shift.”
= = =
Not quite.
I took my lunch break, and then went to the bathroom, and I’m going home at the end of my shi...ft.
Besides not letting clinton win, what happened in San Jose biggest reason yet to vote for Trump
Do-Nothing San Jose Police Hammered for Allowing Thug Riot
Someone could lie to the cops and tell them that all the Soros paid thugs had run through red light cameras.
The cops would be shakin’ ‘em all by the ankles.>>> or selling loosies. then they come to kill.
What we need Now is for Mr Trump to calm the citizens nerves by PUBLICLY announcing that everything will be fine, My Future Attorney General Christie/Guliani is working on building a Federal Case Against the Police Chief and the Officers Involved, the Federal Indictments WILL be handed down the first week I am in Office. They will be Prosecuted to the full extent of the LAW.
Watch their reaction then!!
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