POLICE: “You have some bad apples [among the police]. We all know that. And those will be taken care of through the system. And nobody is going to be easy on them either.
And you have people that choke… They’re under tremendous pressure. And they may be there for 15 years and have a spotless record. And all of a sudden, they’re faced with a decision. They have a quarter of a second — quarter of a second — to make a decision. And if they make a wrong decision, one way or the other, they’re either dead or they’re in big trouble. And people have to understand that. They choke sometimes.
And it’s a very tough situation, right? It’s a very tough — then people call them ‘bad’ and ‘horrible.’ And they made a bad decision. But if you think of it, when they have — and I know you practice this all the time, where you give people literally a quarter of second to make a decision, and a lot of them can’t make that right decision. It’s a very tough thing to do.
The vast and overwhelming majority of police officers are honorable, courageous, and devoted public servants.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump During a Wisconsin Community Safety Roundtable | Kenosha, WI,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 1, 2020