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45 takes the side of law enforcement and pledges to give them total immunity,

along the lines of the ruling of his hand-picked Supreme Court Justices placing him above the law.

The case of Sonya Massey.

One of the female panelists at NABJ posed the question about his stated intention to grant total immunity to law enforcement officers.

Sonya Massey was a Black woman who called 911 for help, fearing there was a prowler.

She was shot in the face and killed by an officer who had been discharged from the military, and cycled through six law enforcement agencies in four years.

She was unarmed, in her own home, and was trying to take a pot of boiling water off of the stove at the officers' direction.

The officer who killed her did not have his body cam operating. The incident was captured by the accompanying officer on his body cam.

The family was not initially informed her death was an officer-involved-shooting.

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45 escalated the protests after the murder of George Floyd,

and the multiple high-profile cases publicized by the BLM movement.

He tries to give false equivalency to the situations, whose causes are wildly unrelated.

He decided to claim "Antifa" was the cause of protests and destruction in the wake of George Floyd's murder.

The reality is "when George Floyd called for his mama, he called for all the mamas."

The protests and outrage were people of good conscience who saw an injustice done and refused to silently stand by.

Just as the protests against the Netanyahu response to the horrors of October 7, 2023, have resulted in the collateral deaths and destruction of tens of thousands, mostly children, and the destruction and displacement of millions.

Netanyahu, more than the Israelis themselves, has been considered as engaging in war crimes, even genocide.

President Biden has been attempting to thread the needle on supporting Israel and attempting to affect a more measured response related to the Palestinians, for the potential of solutions rather than retaliations.

The differences in the mindset of 45 and Netanyahu,

vs Biden and Harris, whose husband, Doug Emhoff is Jewish,

is the difference between using a sledgehammer when a precision-instrument, like a scalpel, is more effective.

The same way 45 wants to isolate from the rest of the world and end alliances like NATO, then use military force to enter Mexico and hunt for drug dealers;

while the Biden/Harris administration has pinpointed leadership and apprehended wanted individuals while avoiding initiating a war or creating a crisis that would result in more refugees along the Southern border of peoples 45 refers to in Hitler-esque terms as "vermin" and "illegal."

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