Doyle McManus: Trump's 'law and order' pitch falls flat
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 2020
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - When cities and towns erupted in protests this summer after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on the neck of a Black man until he stopped breathing, President Donald Trump seized on a familiar Republican theme to boost his re-election campaign.
"I am your law-and-order president," he declared.
Trump blamed the spreading disorder on "protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters (and) lowlifes." He sent federal law enforcement agents and National Guard troops into city streets, and claimed that if Joe
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