Importantly: they were attacked by the police chief, who wasn’t wearing a uniform, and spent the better part of a week in jail already over it.

McElree, the police chief, who was dressed in plain clothes, grabbed a teenage boy and placed a teenage girl in a chokehold, they said, prompting other students to intervene and a larger scuffle to break out.

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    They used to. Trump changed that which is why they’re so loyal to him.

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      I don’t know. I mean cops broadly, and we Americans are kind of raised to be boot lickers even before Trump.