Trump Signs Executive Order on Police Reform
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We ran the numbers: There are 1870 news articles covering this topic. 34% (641) are left leaning, 49% (916) center, 17% (313) right leaning.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced an executive order that creates a federal database of police officers with a history of using excessive force. While left-leaning articles highlight that Trump did not address the racism issue directly, right-leaning articles highlight that Trump met with families of black people killed by the police.
CNN published a left-leaning article highlighting that in his speech, Trump did not address the racism issue directly, and instead suggested the repeated instances of officers killing unarmed black Americans rested on a small number of individual officers. According to people familiar with the matter, Trump himself was not heavily involved in drafting the order, as he and some of his top advisers have failed to acknowledge the role of systemic racism in police departments.
A centrist article by The Hill highlights that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lambasted President Trump’s executive order on policing, saying its reforms will not offset “years of inflammatory rhetoric and policies.” Both the GOP-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House also have separate police reform bills in the works, but it is unclear if either proposal can pass the other chamber.
New York Post published a right-leaning article reporting that before Trump’s announcement regarding his executive order, Trump aides said he met in the White House with the families of Antwon Rose, Jemel Roberson, Michael Dean, Darius Tarver and Cameron Lamb, black men killed by police, and Everett Palmer, who died in jail. Trump also ripped President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden for not enacting police reforms.