James Comey Quotes

We shall guard as zealously the rights of the striker as those of the employer. But when riot is menaced it is different. The mob takes its own chance. Order will be kept at whatever cost. If it comes to shooting we shall shoot to hit. No blank cartridges or firing over the head.

There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.

Shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.

When violence strikes [riots], then those in public responsibility have an immediate ... job, not to analyze, but to end disorder.

The police seemed to lose their head completely as they dashed into the crowds on their horses and slashed out with their clubs.

Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

The police are very mean people sometimes.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

The police have the right to prosecute people, but not use violence.

My job is to protect the safety of everyone... protesters, counter-protesters, and bystanders alike.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

It's problematic when we have excessive numbers of police taking over the streets. People visiting Seoul for the first time might think... this is a military state.

We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

We need to statutize what is permissible and what is not permissible. If a law enforcement agent uses a clearly unapproved technique like the knee that was on the neck of George Floyd for over eight minutes, no law enforcement agent thinks that that's right and that officer should be held accountable.

I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still.

I have a lot of cop friends that I'm close with and we talk about these things. I always ask them, 'In this situation and in this scenario, what would you have done or what should've happened?' If a guy doesn't have a weapon or doesn't seem like he has a weapon, drawing your weapon should never be the answer.

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?