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Trump’s News PROTESTS
before joining the Trump
administration.
Pastor Darrell Scott, one of
President Trump's closest
advisers on issues affecting
black communities, praised
Smith in an interview as an
“unsung hero and a driving
force” in the president's
administration.
Smith is well-versed in
policy, but he has also
discussed problems within
the police system in his
public appearances. by CHARLIE SPIERING | Breitbart
During a speech at the City “Radical Left Governor Jay
Club in Cleveland in Inslee and the Mayor of Seattle
December, Smith was are being taunted and played at
confronted by a private
investigator about racial a level that our great Country
disparities in policing. has never seen before,” Trump
wrote on Twitter. “Take back
“I think we have to rethink your city NOW.”
how we do policing and
community-based policing The radical group of protesters
specifically,” he said. blocked off six blocks in the city
of Seattle, including Capitol Hill,
Since joining the White officer, calling them “some of He spoke about the ideal of declaring it the “Capitol Hill
House, Smith worked on the the greatest people I've ever getting more policemen Autonomous Zone,” and they
Trump administration's met” and said that it was deployed in police forces issued a list of demands to
Opportunity Zone program, unfair to demonize the police w h o h a d s t r o n g e r authorities on Wednesday. Gov.
the push for criminal justice force with a couple of “bad c o n n e c t i o n s i n t h e Inslee said during a press
reform, and the administra- apples” in the system. communities.
tion's funding for historic conference on Wednesday he
black colleges and univer- “If we want real reform that “I've always argued we was unaware of the problem.
sities. can change communities we need to have more African
w i l l s t a r t w i t h l a w A m e r i c a n s f r o m t h e Trump appeared angry that
“One thing I've learned enforcement, and partnering community policing their l o c a l o f f i c i a l s d i d n o t
working under President w i t h t h e m a n d n o t o w n n e i g h b o r h o o d s , immediately remove the
Trump's leadership, that we demonizing them,” he said. community policing, but protesters and take back the
are not just about talk, we are there's been such a area, and he threatened to send
about action,” he said at the The White House did not disconnect that many people in federal forces.
meeting. respond on the record to I grew up around don't want
multiple requests for to be the po-po,” he said. “If you don't do it, I will,” Trump
The president signaled his comment on Smith's role in wrote. “This is not a game.
intent to advance a national drafting policy proposals for He told the group about These ugly Anarchists must be
plan in response to the police enforcement reform. how he was frequently pulled stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE
ongoing protests after over by police in some areas
George Floyd's death. A Cleveland native, Smith after he bought a new FAST!”The group demanded
was brought into the White Chrysler 300 car and said he that the city abolish the Seattle
“We're going to work and House to be an adviser on sympathized with black men Police Department and prisons,
we're going to talk about urban affairs but has since who felt discriminated as well as giving amnesty to all
ideas, how we can do it been promoted to serve as against. illegal migrants, free health
better, and how we can do it, the Deputy Director of Jared care, and college for all.
if possible, in a much more Kushner's Office of American “ T h e r e i s a l o t o f
gentle fashion,” Trump said. Innovation. unfairness, and we have a lot T h e S e a t t l e P o l i c e
of work to do. It won't happen Department closed and
During the meeting, Smith A high school football overnight,” he said. abandoned the East Precinct
shared his reaction to Floyd's player, Smith attended within the six-block area on
death with the officials Howard University in During the roundtable with Monday, allowing the protesters
gathered at the White House. Washington, DC, and the president, Smith said he
subsequently went to Capitol understood why black to have free reign of the area.
“You know, when I saw Hill, working for Sen. Tim Americans harbored anger Police announced that they
what happened with George Scott and Vice President or fears about the police but would not return to the area
Floyd, it really made my heart Mike Pence when he was a said it was wrong to unless they were responding to
sunk,” he said. “It hit me to Congressman serving as the demonize them. a 911 call.
my core, as well as a lot of the H o u s e R e p u b l i c a n
other lives that have been Conference chair. Smith left “I think law enforcement is “Domestic Terrorists have
lost.” Congress to work at there to kind of thread the taken over Seattle, run by
Generation Opportunity, a needle and help us and Radical Left Democrats, of
He also shared his non-profit organization protect us, and not to be course,” Trump wrote. “LAW &
experience with police funded by the Koch Brothers demonized,” he said.
ORDER!”
