President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on police reform tomorrow, he said Monday, as activists ramp up pressure for an overhaul of U.S. policing practices.
The order is expected to include multiple measures, and will have language strengthening ways to track police misconduct, NBC News reported earlier Monday, citing attorney S. Lee Merritt, who said he will attend the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden on Tuesday.
Trump, speaking to reporters at a White House roundtable event Monday afternoon, said he believed the order would be “pretty comprehensive.”
“Basically, we’re going to be talking about things that we’ve been watching and seeing for the last month, and we’re going to have some solutions, some good solutions,” Trump said without providing further details.
During an event in Dallas last week, the president said that the order would “encourage police departments nationwide to meet the most current professional standards of force” and de-escalation. He said “that means force, but force with compassion.”
The White House declined to comment Monday when asked for further details about the order.
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