Mike Pence Wants Talk Of Implicit Biases In PD’S Stopped: Bye Bye First Amendment.

The nation­al Fraternal order of police which endorsed Donald Trump for President of the United States pushed back at Trump on Thursaday for sug­gest­ing that offi­cer Betty Shelby who shot and killed an unarmed Terence Cutcher may have choked.

Speaking at the church of his sup­port­er African-American Pastor Darrell Scott ‚Trump said this.
“I must tell you I watched the shoot­ing in par­tic­u­lar in Tulsa and that man was hands up. That man went to the car, hands up, put his hands on the car, I mean to me it looked like he did every­thing he was sup­posed to do,” said Trump in remarks at a town hall style event address­ing African-American issues in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

However the police Union which rep­re­sents over 300,00 cops nation­wide pushed back at Trump say­ing quote:
“He must be mind­ful of the due process rights and pre­sump­tion of inno­cence accord­ed to all, includ­ing police offi­cers.”
Trump won the sup­port of the Police Union as he would because of his mas­cu­line pro-police stance . No sur­prise there, the Republican par­ty has long been sup­port­ed by the Military and police. Seen large­ly as a kind of Daddy par­ty, sup­pos­ed­ly cater­ing to safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of the nation.
Democrats on the oth­er hand con­verse­ly is seen as the Mommy par­ty, cater­ing to health and well-being , tak­ing care of those unable to take care of themselves.

The state­ment of the police Union though cor­rect struck me as a bit odd.
Many peo­ple of col­or who com­plain about police excess­es would be hap­py to see police apply those same prin­ci­ples when offi­cers inter­act with them and oth­ers like themselves.
They too , each and every­one of them , have a right to due process and the pre­sum­nption of innocence.
Imagine if these same prin­ci­ples were applied to every police vehic­u­lar stop. Every time offi­cers knock on the door to some­one’s home, their cas­tle. Imagine if every instance of inter­ac­tion of offi­cers with the com­mu­ni­ties they serve are char­ac­ter­ized by due process and the pre­sump­tion of inno­cence. Literally most of the prob­lems which exist between police and cit­i­zens would sim­ply cease to exist.
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Imagine if the police start respect­ing the right of all human beings to life lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness, as guar­an­teed in the Constitution how dif­fer­ent things would be. Trump’s run­ning mate Mike Pence the sit­ting Governor of Indiana today said the talk about implic­it bias­es in police depart­ments should stop.
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution pro­hibits the mak­ing of any law respect­ing an estab­lish­ment of reli­gion, imped­ing the free exer­cise of reli­gion, abridg­ing the free­dom of speech, infring­ing on thefree­dom of the press, inter­fer­ing with the right to peace­ably assem­ble, or pro­hibit­ing the peti­tion­ing for a gov­ern­men­tal redress of griev­ances. It was adopt­ed on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amend­ments that con­sti­tute the Bill of Rights.

In essence Mike Pence wants to cur­tail the first amend­ment con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly guar­an­teed right to free­dom of speech to be abridged and abrogated.
In a Trump-Pence America, peo­ple like this writer could face seri­ous con­se­quences for speak­ing out about implic­it bias­es in police depart­ments which inform behavior.
This is what makes a Trump-Pence Presidency such a dan­ger­ous propo­si­tion for peo­ple of col­or all across America and across the rest of the world.