© ShutterstockDonald Trump speaks at Edison New Jersey Hindu Indian-American rally.
President Donald Trump delivered a speech Friday in Long Island to law enforcement officials to discuss efforts to combat gang violence.
The president encouraged law enforcement officers to be rougher with criminal suspects - and feel free to slam suspects' head into their vehicles.
"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, I said, please don't be too nice," Trump remarked at Suffolk County Community College.
"Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody - don't hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?"
The crowd of officers erupted in cheers.
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