President Donald Trump stated Friday that he hoped George Floyd was “looking down today and stating this is a terrific thing that’s occurring for our nation,” just minutes after requiring an amped-up cops response to across the country protests versus racism and police cruelty sparked by Floyd’s death. Trump made the comment during public remarks celebrating a remarkably optimistic jobs report
The president’s recommendation to the man who died after a Minneapolis law enforcement officer pinned his neck to the ground was counter to an appeal by the Rev. Al Sharpton during Floyd’s Thursday afternoon funeral. “For those that have a program that are not about justice, this family will not let you use George as a prop,” Sharpton stated.
Trump’s push for an even more intense police response to the civil discontent likewise is at chances with protesters’ needs for more restraint by authorities. Mobile phone videos taken by protesters throughout the nation considering that Floyd’s death have recorded alarmi