Presiding Officer Gregory's Statement After Trump Endorses Police Brutality

Presiding Officer Gregory Releases Statement After Trump Endorses Police Brutality

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. – Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory issued the following statement after President Donald Trump in his address today at Suffolk County Community College encouraged increased police force.

“The challenges facing law enforcement today are enormous, made all the more difficult by the danger of gangs like MS-13, which are infiltrating our communities, murdering innocent people and destroying the peace and safety that are the very fabric of our lives. However, divisive and offensive rhetoric that insights further violence and insinuates police violence is not the answer. That would be endorsing behavior that is unfitting to the honorable profession of law enforcement.”