Trump Wants The Purge Style Policing

Rosalyn Morris
4 min readOct 5, 2024
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Criminal minded Donald Trump recommended one hour of The Purge style policing for law enforcement as a solution to crime. Of course he only mentioned this as a solution for petty theft, and not the more sordid crimes he’s been convicted of, because why would he want to endanger himself? I mean, why make real policies when you can look to the entertainment world for answers? And, why not take someone’s life, if all murders committed by police are legal for one hour, for let’s say, trying to pay at a convenience store with what the cashier claims to be a counterfeit bill? Why not shoot someone in the head for stealing $35 or $950 worth of goods? I mean what value is a human life? When the human life is a petty thief and, hopefully, Black or POC?

As reported by Newsweek

Speaking at a Sunday rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, former President Trump said that police needed one violent day to restore order.

“What the hell is going on?” he said. “See, we have to let the police do their job [crowd cheers]. And if they have to be extraordinarily rough [crowd cheers louder]. And you know, the funny thing with all of that stuff, look at the department stores, same thing, they walk into it. You see these guys walking out with air conditioners, with refrigerators on their back. The craziest thing. And the police aren’t allowed to do their job…

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