President Trump Wants A ‘Fast Trial & The Death Penalty’ If Wounded LA Officers Die

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President Trump wants a ‘fast trial’ and the ‘death penalty’ for the gunman who shot two LA deputies, if they die.

The deputies, a 31-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, were shot in their car near a metro station in the city of Compton on Saturday night. Video footage shared by the sheriff’s department shows the gunman approaching the vehicle, then opening fire “without warning or provocation.

Protesters have been picketing the hospital where the officers are both in critical condition chanting “we hope they die.”

RT reports: The two deputies were taken to hospital in critical condition, and underwent surgery late on Saturday night. As they fought for their lives, a crowd of protesters descended on the hospital’s emergency room, with some outside chanting“we hope they die.” According to a tweet from the sheriff’s department, the protesters blocked entries and exits to the hospital, and were eventually dispersed, with two arrested after a scuffle with officers.

President Donald Trump was livid. “If they die, fast trial [and] death penalty for the killer,” he tweeted on Sunday. “Only way to stop this.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1305135839559651329

If the deputies did die and the killer was caught and tried, California law would allow for the death penalty. However, nobody has been executed in California since 2006, and Governor Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions last year. Capital punishment can be ordered by the federal justice system, but in practice, most death sentences are handed down by state courts.

Trump often takes to Twitter to demand the executions of particularly heinous criminals. Last month he urged federal prosecutors to “again seek the death penalty” for Boston marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, after his death sentence was vacated in May. Before becoming president, Trump called for the execution of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists, cop killers, mass shooters and pedophiles.

“Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts,” he tweeted in 2012. “Too many incidents – fast trial, death penalty.”

4 Comments

  1. The problem America has is the morality of its rule of law ,and the director generals of education and the media Barons ABSOLUTELY make sure the people NEVER figure that out . Its the MORALITY of the police selection and training that cause them to be ibs3trucyed to act in a manner rhat makes the public minorities or low socioeconomic communities fistrust them and fear them despite paying them to protect e everyone ,theoretically ,as equal before the law .ITS the MORALITY of their instruction and their compliance wirg that morality that has SET UP this present situation ,WITH full INTENTION

  2. Death penalty is the only solution to prevent a democracy failing the people.

    George Bizos is celebrated under the anc yet he argued for the death penalty to be abolished while america & britain ushered in our “democracy” in south africa.

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