The irony is that Donald Trump, who flaunted his Giuliani-style boosterism of police, egging them on to feel impervious to public scrutiny and even joking about brutality, may preside over police departments & polce unions losing their extraordinary power to make their own rules.
He and his attorney general henchman William Bare will go down in history as having reigned over the era when white Americans discovered what black, brown and indigenous Americans already knew about over-policing, excessive police militarization, and bias. abcnews.go.com/Politics/74-am…
Barr not “Bare.” But you get the point. So far nothing has been able to crack police unions’ power over municipalities or roll back the militarization of police forces. But the George Floyd murder and the excessive response by the DOJ and local police departments might.
