President Trump hinted on Tuesday at a small potential area of bipartisan consensus on policing.
Why it matters: America's police departments do a bad job of keeping bad cops off the streets, with unsurprising and unacceptable results.
- Systemic racism is real, and America's police disproportionately target black men in a way that white people are finally beginning to recognize.
On Tuesday in the Rose Garden, Trump said there are a "small number of bad police officers. ... They are very tiny. I use the word 'tiny.' It is a very small percentage. But you have them."
- He was there to sign a modest executive order limiting the use of chokeholds and moves to create a national database for police misconduct," Axios' Alayna Treene reports.
- The order also pushes for de-escalation training, which Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms called for on Monday.
- "You've got to get cops to understand that it's not a cowardly act, that backing off could save this person's life," said Tom Manger, a retired police chief in Virginia and Maryland and former president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
Between the lines: Both of the police officers involved in recent high-profile killings of black men had previous incidents that should have raised flags....
- Garrett Rolfe: "The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot faced disciplinary action in 2016 for a use-of-force incident involving a firearm, according to department records."
- Derek Chauvin: "The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of