DA Mulroy Says Cops May Train to Commit Violence

Shelby County District Attorney Stave Mulroy is facing national outrage over a USA Today editorial he wrote attacking police officers.

Mulroy suggest that law enforcement officers were not well-trained and were prone to look for violence in a column he wrote titled, “Your local police may be trained for violence. They shouldn’t be.”

“One thing I learned was a DA can’t prevent police killings if the police are trained to kill,” Mulroy wrote. “I went in expecting a fairly neutral discussion of the law, with a series of practical dos and don’ts, with illustrative examples of when force was and was not appropriate. I got nothing of the kind.”

State Sen. Brent Taylor (R-Eads), who is running for the Republican nomination in the Ninth Congressional District, blasted Mulroy calling him the state’s only “Soros-backed district attorney.”

Taylor said Mulroy “cares more about coddling cop-killers than working with law enforcement to fight crime.”

“It’s clear from his op-ed that D.A. Mulroy is itching to prosecute a cop. D.A. Mulroy is a danger to President Trump’s progress on fighting crime in Memphis, and Mulroy’s lack of focus on prosecuting criminals is a danger to law-abiding citizens in West Tennessee,” he added.

Taylor passed laws in the Tennessee legislature to keep Mulroy and other rogue prosecutors in line by ending the state’s version of cashless bail, requiring accountability reports on what cases are dismissed and downgraded, and won a battle to get oversight of Mulroy’s office from Tennessee’s Attorney General.

Taylor vowed to continue his fight against Mulroy in Congress.

“I’ll never let reckless and misguided liberal prosecutors endanger the lives of law-abiding citizens. To Take Tennessee to the Top, we need to hold these reckless district attorneys accountable. I’ve done it in the Tennessee Senate. I’m the man for the job to do it in Congress,” Taylor said.

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