President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to strengthen, protect, and empower law enforcement. Praise God!

From The Epoch Times. President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to take steps toward bolstering law enforcement resources and ensuring officers don’t focus on equity policies.

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“When local leaders demonize law enforcement and impose legal and political handcuffs that make aggressively enforcing the law impossible, crime thrives and innocent citizens and small business owners suffer,” Trump said in an executive order on April 28. …

Part of his order targets “illegal race- and sex- based ‘equity’ policies” and directs the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law.”

Trump’s order also seeks to boost law enforcement resources by directing the eventual provision of excess military and national security assets to assist authorities. Under the order, the attorney general is directed to maximize the use of federal resources for a variety of purposes, including increasing officers’ pay and benefits, promoting investment in prison security, and expanding access to training available to state and local law enforcement.

Another aspect of the order sought to hold state and local officials accountable for directing the obstruction of criminal law and unlawfully engaging in civil rights violations “under the guise of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives.”

The presidential order came on the same day that Trump signed two others, including one focused on bringing jurisdictions with so-called sanctuary policies into compliance with federal law. In it, he accused some state and local officials of engaging in a “lawless insurrection” by using their authority to obstruct federal immigration enforcement. …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Abe McNatt)