President Donald Trump led his remarks on the country’s first manned rocket launch in almost a years with some harsh words for civil liberties protesters around the nation demanding authorities accountability.
” My administration will stop mob violence, and we’ll stop it cold,” Trump said from Florida hours after purchasing the Pentagon to put military police on alert for potential deployment to the demonstration sites.
” Radical left wrongdoers, criminals and others, all throughout our country and throughout the world, will not have the ability to set neighborhoods ablaze,” Trump said.
Civil rights demonstrations, the majority of them peaceful, have occurred all week in cities throughout the country following the death of George Floyd, a Black male, while in cops custody; 4 law enforcement officers were later fired. One of the officers– seen in a video of the incident pinning Floyd to the pavement with his knee– has been apprehended and charged with third-degree murder and murder.
Some of the larger demonstrations have turned violent in recent days. Protesters in Minneapolis handled to require police officers to re