POLICE: “Well, the problem is that if you have one bad policemen or if you have a policemen that frankly chokes, they make a mistake, they choke, they could be in the force for a long time, but there were never under that pressure. For that one second or less than a second, they have to make a decision. And if they make a bad decision, it’s all over the world.
What you don’t see is the thousands and thousands of great decisions that are made when people are saved. So we have to understand that. I mean, people can make a mistake. That doesn’t make them bad, they choked. Bad things happen and it can happen. And we have to protect our police.
We have to allow our police to have the respect that they used to have.”
-Donald Trump in an Aug. 28, 2020 interview with Adam Sexton, “CloseUp: One-on-one with President Trump,” wmur.com, Aug. 30, 2020