Political Quotes

“I have served as my State's attorney general. I have served as a U.S. attorney for Rhode Island. I used to lecture at the police training academy in Rhode Island. I know a little bit about police work, and I know bad police work when I see it. What we are seeing in Minnesota is a level of violence, a lack of deconfliction, and flatout unprofessionalism that is dangerous. Trust me, it is not just me. Let's start with Minneapolis's own police chief, who described ICE's behavior this way: It looks very untrained. It looks unprofessional. It looks very chaotic. He described it as ``poor tactics and really unconstitutional practices.'' He put some good context on it. He said: Minneapolis Police Department went the entire year last year, recovering 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds and hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone. This is the second American citizen that's been killed, this is the third shooting within three weeks. It is not just up in Minnesota. In Maine, a sheriff said that this is ``bush league policing.'' Another Minnesota sheriff said: I am seeing . . . people being stopped, questioned and harassed solely because of the color of their skin. A Philadelphia sheriff said that these agents are ``made up, fake, wanna-be law enforcement.'' A chief in St. Paul described ``traffic stops'' that are ``clearly outside the bounds of what federal agents are allowed to do.'' A former police chief said: Their tactics are unsound.…”