WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund is rejecting Donald Trump’s call for “more police” in black neighborhoods as being “out of touch with reality and the reality of black lives.”
Tuesday in West Bend, Wis. Trump called for more police in America’s inner cities, arguing that Democratic policies have failed minority communities and accusing Democrats of “peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force.”
“I’m asking for the vote of every African American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. It’s time for our society to address some honest and very very difficult choices,” Trump said.
Russell Roybal, deputy executive director, National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund rejecting Trump’s claims said, “Donald Trump’s answer to the epidemic of police killings of Black people is to put more police in Black neighborhoods. He is clearly out of touch with reality and the reality of Black lives. More police are not the answer; radical reform of our criminal justice system and police accountability to communities is. More belligerent talk and demonizing people is not the answer to creating a more peaceful and secure nation; meaningful legislation that addresses violence and guns is.”
