Biden calls for retraining cops: ‘Why should you always shoot with deadly force?’

President Biden on Monday called for police officers to be retrained so they’re taught not to use deadly force in every situation that requires them to fire their weapon.

The 80-year-old president’s comments came during the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast in Washington, DC, as Biden blasted Senate Republicans for blocking a police reform bill in 2021 that would’ve restricted the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.

“We have to retrain cops,” Biden said. “Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don’t have to do that.”

Biden made a similar suggestion about the use of deadly force by police on the presidential campaign trail in 2020, at the height of the George Floyd riots, arguing that police officers should be trained to shoot threatening individuals “in the leg instead of the heart.”

“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart,” Biden told African American community leaders in June of 2020 at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

“After Rule #1 is Rule #2- shut up.”

Consider that you need to “shut up” from the beginning because “anything you say can and will be used against you”.

I’m trying to provide some food for thought to people who lack control over their mouths and keyboards.

“We have to retrain cops,” Biden said. “Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don’t have to do that.” Biden made a similar suggestion about the use of deadly force by police on the presidential campaign trail in 2020, at the height of the George Floyd riots, arguing that police officers should be trained to shoot threatening individuals “in the leg instead of the heart.” “Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart,”

Full text of Brandon's speech:

Ladles and jellyspoons, I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Next Thursday, which is Good Friday, there will be a Mother's Day meeting for fathers only.
Admission is free, so pay at the door. Pull up a seat and sit on the floor.
The topic to discuss ever befitted A crime that has not been committed.
One fine day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other.
One was blind and the other couldn't see. So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play, A dumb man went to shout "hooray!" A paralysed donkey passing by, Kicked the dummy in the eye, Knocked him through a nine inch wall, into a dry ditch and drowned them all.
A deaf policeman heard the noise, And came to arrest the two dead boys, If you don't believe this story’s true, Ask the blind man he saw it too!

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