Posted on 08/16/2016 5:14:58 PM PDT by mandaladon
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Milwaukee on Tuesday, days after the city was hit by unrest over the fatal police shooting of a black man, and said that initial evidence pointed to the shooting being justified.
Trump, who has been vocal in support of law enforcement during a spate of protests around the country over high-profile police shootings, told Fox News that he plans to address the unrest during a town hall meeting on Tuesday in the Wisconsin city.
"It's law and order. We have to obey the laws or we don't have a country," said Trump. "We have a case where good people are out there trying to get people to sort of calm down and they're not calming down and we have our police who are doing a phenomenal job."
Unrest broke out in the city on Saturday night after the death earlier in the day of Sylville Smith, 23. Authorities said Smith was stopped for acting suspiciously and then fled, and was shot by police because he was carrying an illegal handgun and refused orders to drop it.
"But the gun was pointed at his (a police officer's) head supposedly ready to be fired. Who can have a problem with that? That’s what the narrative is," Trump told Fox News. "Maybe it’s not true. If it is true, people shouldn’t be rioting.”
Trump held a roundtable discussion on Tuesday afternoon with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and Inspector Edward Bailey - but news media representatives were escorted out and not permitted to hear the discussions. Trump took a brief tour of the county's war memorial and posed for pictures with veterans.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Days after unrest hit the city...”
Lol at the passive voice. As if it were a hurricane or something, not rioters.
Media is filth. Media is the enemy.
The wife and I had tickets to go to the rally at the Pabst Theater this evening. We saw one protester!
We arrived five minutes too late to make it inside the event; they overbooked the event and were out of seats by the time we showed up. I’m blaming it on the river bridge . . .
He’s getting ready to speak.... youtube says “video removed by user - sorry about that :-(”
Who is the “user?” Anyone know? Sure wasn’t me! Similar message this morning when I was trying to find one of his earlier rallies in Wisconsin.
The H3ll media/DNC are effing with us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1bmJFxVmU
https://youtu.be/CRZqz3e5Pr8
Props for going
Hillary is napping at home.
She already did her part by whipping up the flames with her speech.
No need to do it on-site.
Soros gave some $650,000 to BLM
Kind of like Obama not going to see Louisianna and the floods, 20,000 people had to be rescued. He is on vacation don’t ya know. Remember Katrina and Bush- the outrage?
Notice how Reuters is beside themselves over Trump running to the unrest while the liberal media downplays the Black Lives Matters/Soro’s orchestrated riots, and Obozo plays golf and the Hildabeast sleeps on.
I wondered about that! Thanks for the links!
That site is all about Kaine video. Don’t bother!
Black Lives Don’t Matter—But the votes of Riled-Up Blacks DO
matter.
Bingo. You are right on the money. It is not about trying to get big urban liberal voters to vote for Trump (they won't) it's about showing the whole nation that Trump will be a President for ALL of the people not just some special groups and cronies.
Please notice trump is the ONLY pol with the balls to go into Milwaukee to address this situation.
Nothing from hildabeast.
Nothing from obammy
Nothing from ryno
This is a great idea from Trump. He should continue to capitalize on news events such as this, and repeatedly catch Hillary flat-footed.
There's just no way Hillary can compete with Trump as far as energy on the campaign trail. If it weren't for the Media propping her up, she'd be behind by 10 points.
Vote Trump!
Detroit is Dresden. Not a ton of people to speak to.
Top-o-Drudge, Big Bold ...
TRUMP TAKES ON THE RIOTERS!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/donald-trump-pushes-law-and-order-agenda-direct-ap/
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