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Sharpton rips Trump's police comments ahead of D.C. justice march

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Saturday, July 29, 2017, 12:37 PM

They plan on keeping the faith.

In light of President Trumps casual comments appearing to endorse police brutality, Rev. Al Sharptons Saturday rally at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem was even more spiritual than usual.

Sharpton was joined by Gyalwang Drukpa, the head of the Drukpa lineage of Buddhism, ahead of next months planned Ministers March for Justice in Washington.

The march will mark the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s famed I have a dream speech.

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We have to get out on the street and work for the people, said Gyalwang Drukpa, draped in burgundy and canary yellow robes.

Without disrespecting the prayers, without disrespecting the meditation ... we physically have to go out and interact with the people and save the people, he said.

The Aug. 28 rally will include 1,000 ministers from a variety of faiths who will march from the MLK memorial on the National Mall to the Department of Justice.

Sharpton invoked Kings speech Saturday as he promised to fight the Trump administration.

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The basic tenets of that dream were fighting poverty, fighting for voter rights, fighting for criminal justice reform, as well as dealing with the critical issue of health, he said. Those are all threatened today.

Trumps comments, made during a speech in front of cops on Long Island, came as he called for a crackdown on MS-13 gang members.

Dont be too nice, the President encouraged a crowd of uniformed police officers.

When you guys put somebody in the car and youre protecting their head, like dont hit their head? They just killed somebody, dont hit their head? I said you can take their hand away, Trump said.

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Sharpton railed against the comments Saturday, calling them a reckless disregard for the law, and set a tone that is dangerous and biased in this country.

He also took issue with Trumps use of the term paddywagon.

Gyalwang Drukpa agreed and compared the fight for justice and equality under the Trump administration to the oppression that Buddhists have faced in Tibet and the Himalayas.

You guys are talking about the marching, and that is such a beautiful, peaceful thing that we should do ... for the purpose of justice, he said. And we, back in the Himalaya ... have been doing the marching for kilometers and miles, thousands of miles across the Himalayan region. We walk for the peace and for the justice.

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Rev. Al Sharpton spoke out against President Trump on Friday after he encouraged police to be more aggressive while arresting "thugs."

"When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, and I said, Please don't be too nice," Trump told police officers in New York on Friday.

Sharpton joined a chorus of other civil rights activists working to end police brutality by condemning the president's comments and use of the term "paddy wagon."

"Can you imagine if President Obama had made a racial slur?" Sharpton said during his keynote address at his National Action Network's weekly rally on Saturday.

The slur, referring to a police car, dates back to the 19th century when Irish-Catholic refugees came to America. The word "paddy" has long been an offensive word used to describe Irishmen.

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The United States Embassy sponsored six Filipino maritime law enforcement experts to attend a curriculum development workshop on underwater crime scene investigation training in San Diego, California, from July 17 to 20.

The workshop is part of a larger P25 million US government initiative to strengthen underwater crime scene investigation training programs for Philippine maritime law enforcement agencies, through partnership with the Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department and the US Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL).

Filipino experts from the Philippine Coast Guard, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and the Philippine National Police Maritime Group, met with US counterparts, including representatives from the Port of San Diego Harbor Police dive team, US Embassy Manila INL, and INLs Office of Criminal Justice Assistance and Partnership, to develop a special diver training course for underwater search, crime scene, and disaster investigations.

The course aims to equip Philippine divers from all three participating agencies with a variety of skills, including detecting illegal drugs smuggled on the hull of vessels or dumped overboard for later retrieval. Once finalized, the course will be incorporated into the training academies of the three participating Philippine agencies.

Through the US Embassys INL programs, the Philippine government builds more effective law enforcement institutions and justice systems by drawing on American expertise in combating crime, corruption, and narcotics trafficking.

The US Department of State has more than 110 partners across the United States to facilitate training and exchanges with foreign countries, including with federal law enforcement agencies; state and local police and corrections departments; local and state courts; district attorneys offices and public defenders; port authorities; and professional associations, academic institutions, and civil society organizations.

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The European Commission on Saturday launched an "infringement procedure" against Poland over parts ofcontroversial judiciary reforms.

The EU executive decided on Wednesday to start legal action against Poland for violating the bloc's law, but had to wait until Poland officially published the new law to send a letter to Warsaw.

The Commission is concerned that the reforms will undermine the independence of the judiciary by giving the justice minister discretionary power to extend the mandate of common judges, as well as dismiss and appoint lower court presidents.

"The new rules allow the Minister of Justice to exert influence onindividualordinary judges through, in particular, the vague criteria for the prolongation of their mandates, thereby undermining the principle of irremovability of judges," the Commission said in a statement.

It also took issue with the introduction of different retirement ages for female and male judges, set at 60 and 65 years, respectively.That aspect of the reform violates EU anti-discrimination policy.

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Poland's governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) now has one month to respond. If the Polish response is unsatisfactory, the Commission can issue requests that Warsaw must implement its recommendationswithin two months.

If Poland fails to implement the recommendations, it could end up at the European Court of Justice. Decisions from Europe's top court are binding and can result infines on members.

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed the reform on Tuesday. But after the EU warnings and mass protests, the president surprisingly vetoed two other controversial lawspassed by lawmakers.

Those reforms would have increased political control over the Supreme Court, removed its judges and allowed lawmakers to choose members of a body that decides on court appointments.

PiS has vowed to push through the reforms despite the veto.

The Commission has warned Poland that itcould trigger Article 7 if the Supreme Court reforms are implemented.

Article 7 is an action, never before used,that would see Poland lose its voting rights in the European Council, or meeting of European ministers, for violating fundamental EU laws.

The EU and Poland have been in disagreement since the conservative PiS came to power in 2015 seeking aseries of legal and media reforms that critics say undermine democracy and the rule of law.

Last year, the EU took the unprecedented step of launchinga process of reviewing the rule of law in Poland.

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Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico delivered a damning verdict of Brussels decision making processes, saying they need a radical overhaul if the bloc is to survive.

In a forthright address he said recent meetings of the EU Council of 27 leaders showed how little we know about each other and bemoaned the superficial nature of European debate.

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He said that fewer decisions should be taken in Brussels and more power should be delegated to regional bodies in comments which will fuel fears amongst some that the bloc could disintegrate.

Mr Fico made the remarks after the EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker proposed a meeting between the Visegrad bloc of nations and Italy to try and break the stand-off on migration.

Slovakia, alongside Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, have all refused to take part in Brussels refugee quota scheme saying that it presents threats to their sovereignty and security.

Yesterday the advocate general of the ECJ released an opinion stating that an appeal against having to accept migrants, launched by Hungary and Slovakia, should be thrown out.

That suggestion drew a furious response from officials in Bratislava which said it would never accept refugee quotas, although Mr Fico was more circumspect in his remarks today saying only that he had a serious problem with the programme.

However, the Slovakian leader was much more forthright on where he thinks the EU is going wrong, saying it needs to make decisions less centrally and more regionally if it wants to make progress in the future.

It has been confirmed how important it is to meet in smaller formats

Robert Fico

He said: If we have a general discussion, we know that it will also be a particular discussion. Im mentioning this because the format of 27 or 28 is not a sufficient space for in depth discussion.

We could see it at the meeting of V4 [Visegrad] and the French president or the Austrian chancellor, prime minister and myself, where it was shown how little we know about each other, how little information is there.

Thats why I believe that this meetingwill be a meeting which will clarify lots of things, that will move things forward. The smaller formats have been lacking and we need to have more meetings in these small formats.

He added: It has been confirmed how important it is to meet in smaller formats and not to address such delicate topics as 27 or 28 prime ministers.

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Mr Ficos remarks offer a damning insight into how EU decision making, which is currently focussed around agreements between 28 leaders or ministers, operate in practice.

He suggests that there is little discussion of substantive issues at EU Council meetings, with leaders nodding through measures with little understanding of how their colleagues feel.

His remarks will strike a strong chord with Brexiteers, who argued that a democratic deficit at the heart of the European project, with little outside scrutiny, was a key reason for giving back control over lawmaking to the UK parliament.

However suggestions that regional groupings, such as the Visegrad Four and the Benelux countries, should wield more power will alarm eurocrats who feel keeping power centralised in Brussels is the best way of stopping the project falling apart.

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