Ahmaud Arbery's family attorney was among those who met with Trump before he signed his executive order on police reform. 'The families didn't really find too much in what he said in the EO that would significantly change outcomes in their case,' he says.
There was not a lot of common ground, he said.
"The families didn't really find too much in what he said in the EO [executive order] that would significantly change outcomes in their case," Merritt said."It was a conversation where we would exchange ideas, and he heard from the families, and the families heard from him."After that meeting, the president gave a speech before signing this executive order. ... Most of the speech was kind of a rousing endorsement of policing in America. ...
I have to tell you, I didn't listen to the speech. I know what Trump's rhetoric is often about. It was a difficult meeting to take in the first place. I know that he doesn't feel like there's systemic racism within our policing system. I know some of the things that we were fighting for specifically, like qualified immunity [which police officers can potentially use to shield themselves from liability in lawsuits], he had taken a position against.
As far as the executive order itself, which provides funding for more training for police officers, money for departments to hire social workers, a ban on chokeholds unless an officer fears for his or her life ... you don't think this executive order goes far enough. No, it doesn't go far enough, and I'm not sure that the office of the presidency can go far enough. We wanted to have the conversation, and it is actually important that
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