in World News Cops Stand with Trump — NYPD Uses Dump Truck to Block Media Filming Entrance, Exit from Courthouse
by Wendell Husebø
The New York Police Department appears to show President Donald Trump the courtesy of protecting him from undue media attention as he enters and exits the Manhattan courthouse each day, according to a report.
The New York Times outlined the police’s “favorable” treatment of Trump:
Trump continues to receive favorable treatment from the New York City Police Department. For a week, a large N.Y.P.D. dump truck has parked in the intersection of Hogan Place and Centre Street, with a uniformed driver sitting inside. Minutes before Trump’s arrival each morning, the dump truck has pulled a half-car length forward, blocking news photographers’ views of him entering the side door of the courthouse. And this afternoon, like those before it, the driver did the same maneuver for Trump’s 2:37 p.m. departure.
The NYPD’s treatment of Trump comes after he attended a commemoration ceremony in March of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty. Trump attended the ceremony on the same day that Biden attended a high-dollar fundraiser with Barack Obama.