No, really, take his phone away.

Don't you talk about my hometown. Well, no you. The you I'm referring to here is electoral college beneficiary Donald Trump, and the hometown I mention is Rochester, NY. Yes, that Rochester, NY, the subject of one of the President's incoherent tweets.

It used to be famous for the garbage plate...

"This delay was unacceptable. Who've
they got running this town anyway-oh..."

-Mayor Warren

You probably read that a man called Daniel Prude died after being forcibly restrained by the police, which is in itself suspicious, as is the fact that it happened back in March and we didn't hear about it until late August which is-and check my math-five months later. Mayor Warren is saying that the case was taken out of the city's hands in April, but that doesn't explain why it was kept from the public or why it took five months to suspend the officers responsible. Nor does it explain why despite Prude's death being ruled a homicide, his killers were just allowed to keep going to work.

"I don't know chief, we tried teargas, rubber
 bullets, everything. What is it going to take
to convince them that we're here to help?"

Anyway, there's been five days of protests so far and on Saturday night, county legislator, Rachel Barnhart who was among those injured, said that it was the police who started the violence. Which tracks given that they're meeting protests against police violence with police violence. But Sunday night, was peaceful. This was credited to a church group placing themselves between cops and the protestors and Mayor Warren pleading with the police to practice restraint this time. And I mean, you'd think they wouldn't need to be told not to beat up the demonstrators, but here we are.

Sure, everyone's still upset with how this had been handled and there's a call for the Mayor and the Chief of Police to resign, but no one was hurt and no one was arrested. And that just makes the President chiming in with his unsolicited bullshit all the more infuriating:

Um...how dare you?

Above: the picture. Specifically a picture
of pro-Trump goons teargassing and trying
to run over peaceful demonstrators.   

First of all, it's Democratic governors and the "g" in governor is lower case unless you're referring to someone specific. Also, if these cities were run by the radical left, the police departments would have been taken off psych calls like Daniel Prude's ages ago. Also, also, we do get the picture and the picture is of a feckless, hate-filled man blaming others for the chaos and division he's spent his entire presidency stoking in a seriously misguided effort to win the white-supremacist vote. 

So whatever we may think of Mayor Warren not mentioning Prude's murder for months, or the fact that the officers were suspended and not fired and charged immediately, Sunday's protests were peaceful because the cops didn't assault the demonstrators. And Donald Trump has sort of made telling police to go ahead and beat the shit out of protestors part of his campaign platform, so maybe he should, I don't know, shut his goddamn Tweet hole?

What I'm saying is that President Obama didn't
need to teargas anyone to cross the street.