Harmeet Dhillon
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You can just take the words of my predecessor at her own face value, which is, you know, defund the police. And so defund the police has become the mantra of so-called law enforcement in the United States.
I mean, I don't want to speculate about motives, but it has made our cities less safe. It has made us pay for the cities to become less safe. So that's particularly galling. We have to pay some person eating at Morton's on our dime and attending conferences on our dime. And... who are people who put their lives on the line for us every day are made to feel ashamed of their jobs.
I mean, I don't want to speculate about motives, but it has made our cities less safe. It has made us pay for the cities to become less safe. So that's particularly galling. We have to pay some person eating at Morton's on our dime and attending conferences on our dime. And... who are people who put their lives on the line for us every day are made to feel ashamed of their jobs.
I mean, I don't want to speculate about motives, but it has made our cities less safe. It has made us pay for the cities to become less safe. So that's particularly galling. We have to pay some person eating at Morton's on our dime and attending conferences on our dime. And... who are people who put their lives on the line for us every day are made to feel ashamed of their jobs.
And America's less safe. And every time you see, there are bad cops. I want to be clear. There are cops who shoot people. And the DOJ also prosecutes those, to be clear. Part of our job in the Civil Rights Division is a criminal section that criminally prosecutes bad cops. I support that. I've signed off on several prosecutions recently.
And America's less safe. And every time you see, there are bad cops. I want to be clear. There are cops who shoot people. And the DOJ also prosecutes those, to be clear. Part of our job in the Civil Rights Division is a criminal section that criminally prosecutes bad cops. I support that. I've signed off on several prosecutions recently.
And America's less safe. And every time you see, there are bad cops. I want to be clear. There are cops who shoot people. And the DOJ also prosecutes those, to be clear. Part of our job in the Civil Rights Division is a criminal section that criminally prosecutes bad cops. I support that. I've signed off on several prosecutions recently.
So far, since I've been there, and there's trials going on right now, cops who shoot somebody in the back, and they exhibit excessive force. But we also have to all be punished collectively. Back to the point of collective punishment, we all have to suffer because there's one bad cop or two bad cops.
So far, since I've been there, and there's trials going on right now, cops who shoot somebody in the back, and they exhibit excessive force. But we also have to all be punished collectively. Back to the point of collective punishment, we all have to suffer because there's one bad cop or two bad cops.
So far, since I've been there, and there's trials going on right now, cops who shoot somebody in the back, and they exhibit excessive force. But we also have to all be punished collectively. Back to the point of collective punishment, we all have to suffer because there's one bad cop or two bad cops.
I'm one of the few lawyers who's headed the civil rights division who's actually sued the police. And I did it from the opposite perspective of what is expected. So in 2016, I was at a Trump rally and there was a riot in San Jose. And it was an organized, well-funded riot. I'm just a citizen going to support my candidate. I did the... Pledge of Allegiance. I met the future president backstage.
I'm one of the few lawyers who's headed the civil rights division who's actually sued the police. And I did it from the opposite perspective of what is expected. So in 2016, I was at a Trump rally and there was a riot in San Jose. And it was an organized, well-funded riot. I'm just a citizen going to support my candidate. I did the... Pledge of Allegiance. I met the future president backstage.
I'm one of the few lawyers who's headed the civil rights division who's actually sued the police. And I did it from the opposite perspective of what is expected. So in 2016, I was at a Trump rally and there was a riot in San Jose. And it was an organized, well-funded riot. I'm just a citizen going to support my candidate. I did the... Pledge of Allegiance. I met the future president backstage.
And then all of us were subjected to mob violence. And what galled me was the police, 200 plus of them with riot gear, just stood there and watched. And I went and during the course of my lawsuit suing over the fact that American citizens were injured in a violent mob, I asked some of them, like, why? Why was that?
And then all of us were subjected to mob violence. And what galled me was the police, 200 plus of them with riot gear, just stood there and watched. And I went and during the course of my lawsuit suing over the fact that American citizens were injured in a violent mob, I asked some of them, like, why? Why was that?
And then all of us were subjected to mob violence. And what galled me was the police, 200 plus of them with riot gear, just stood there and watched. And I went and during the course of my lawsuit suing over the fact that American citizens were injured in a violent mob, I asked some of them, like, why? Why was that?
You get to the bottom of that lawsuit and it turns out that because of consent decrees and best practices of policing that are coming down from Washington, D.C. and the DOJ, the police are taught to basically, in a crowd control situation, stand there and watch and not do anything. It is insane. I was truly shocked by that.
You get to the bottom of that lawsuit and it turns out that because of consent decrees and best practices of policing that are coming down from Washington, D.C. and the DOJ, the police are taught to basically, in a crowd control situation, stand there and watch and not do anything. It is insane. I was truly shocked by that.
You get to the bottom of that lawsuit and it turns out that because of consent decrees and best practices of policing that are coming down from Washington, D.C. and the DOJ, the police are taught to basically, in a crowd control situation, stand there and watch and not do anything. It is insane. I was truly shocked by that.
And so I have experience suing the police and, you know, trying to get them to improve their practices and be more aggressive on behalf of the taxpayers, which is the opposite of what they're usually asked to do in these cases. And so, you know, so we resolved that case with some agreements that they would do some training and be a little, you know, different than what they were.