Donald Trump will unveil plan to tackle ‘aggressive policing tactics’ at the White House on Tuesday and meet black families who have suffered at cops’ hands – but will NOT use words ‘systemic racism’ in new executive order
- Donald Trump said Monday that he will unveil a police reform executive order during a Rose Garden event on Tuesday
- Trump told reporters at the White House that the plan would provide ‘solutions’
- A White House official told DailyMail.com that it would ‘address the public’s concern about aggressive policing, but not tie the hands of officers in the field keeping communities safe’
- One lawyer involved with discussion claimed it would address ‘systemic racism’
- The White House official, however, said the word ‘systemic’ and ‘racism’ does not once appear in the text of the order
- The plan comes three weeks after nationwide protests and riots over the death of George Floyd and rising tensions between black people and cops
Donald Trump said Monday that he will present ‘solutions’ in a police reform executive order he will unveil on Tuesday, as reports reveal it will address systemic racism rooted in law enforcement.
‘The main thing important to us is to address the public’s concern about aggressive policing, but not tie the hands of officers in the field keeping communities safe,’ a White House official told DailyMail.com.
Trump told reporters during a roundtable on ‘Fighting for America’s Seniors’ that he would ‘save’ revealing all the details of the executive order for a Rose Garden event on Tuesday where he will be joined by Attorney General Bill Barr.
‘We’re going to have some solutions,’ he said, admitting: ‘We need some great people in our police department.’
‘We will do better, even better,’ Trump said. ‘And we’re going to try and do it fast. So we’re going to have a meeting tomorrow, we’re going to have a news conference tomorrow.’
Donald Trump said Monday that he will unveil a police reform executive order during a Rose Garden event on Tuesday and one individual claimed he felt it addresses ‘systemic racism’
The president also said he spoke with several groups, including sheriffs and families who have been affected by police brutality, when drafting the executive order.
‘We can get it done, and will get it done,’ Trump continued. ‘We will get it passed, and it’s got to be passed by one person. And that person’s me.’
The president didn’t seem too optimistic about Congress passing anything on the matter, despite Democrats presenting a sweeping police reform bill last week.
Civil Rights lawyer Lee Merritt, said that Trump’s plan will ‘acknowledge systemic racism in policing.’
But a White House official told DailyMail.com that saying it addresses ‘systemic racism’ is Merritt’s opinion, asserting that neither the word ‘systemic’ or ‘racism’ is included in the text of the order.
‘Having seen the text, it in no place uses the word systemic or racism,’ the official said.
Trump will separately and privately meet with black families who have been affected by police violence on Tuesday.
Merritt helped connect the president with the families.
‘The overall goal is we want law and order,’ Trump told reporters of the order at the White House Monday as he continues to dub himself the ‘law and order president.’
‘It’s about justice also,’ he continued. ‘It’s about safety.’
The executive order will come more than three days weeks after George Floyd died in Minneapolis while in police custody after a white cop, Derek Chauvin, held his knee on the back of the victim’s neck for more than eight minutes.
The incident, which went viral thanks to a bystander taking video, sparked nationwide unrest and led to weeks or rioting, looting, arson, protests and other demonstrations regarding race and black communities’ relationship with law enforcement.
It has also ignited a movement by far-left factions of the party calling for the defunding and dismemberment of police departments across the U.S.
Trump has tweeted several times about the unrest, but his only public remarks on the incident came on June 1, when he spoke to reporters in the Rose Garden before walking across Pennsylvania Avenue for a photo-op in front of a church that was set on fire in riots.