Dominating trump begins his next act2/27/2024 In truth, experts say both far-left and far-right agitators are in the mix, but to what extent is unclear and peaceful protesters are overwhelmingly, increasingly dominant. ‘Don’t lay the blame on others!’ In the next week the President tweeted on Antifa 10 more times, and promised to ‘designat ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.’ (This is doubly impossible, because Antifa isn’t a group, and domestic groups are protected by the First Amendment.) Defending the nationalist fringe, the President tweeted: ‘I don’t see any indication that there were any white suprem groups mixing in.’ ‘It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left,’ he tweeted. As he fantasised last year: ‘I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump–I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough-until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.’Īfter his evening in the bunker, the President obsessively blamed the riots on ‘Antifascist’ elements, while insisting that his supporters were only the finest people. But if he ever issues such a battle cry in friendlier terrain, he might trigger street brawls, or even shootouts. Recklessly, he issued a thinly-veiled call for a counter-protest by the toughs who frequent ‘Make America Great Again’ rallies: ‘Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE?’ This appeal fell on deaf ears in DC, where the President won a minuscule 4% of the vote. Over the next three days, he overcompensated historically.Įchoing his commentary on Tiananmen, he twice tweeted ‘STRENGTH!’ Channelling Richard Nixon’s 1968 slogan, he compulsively tweeted, ‘LAW & ORDER!’ In a throwback to racist police chiefs, he threatened to set ‘vicious dogs’ on any protester who stormed the White House. Reportedly, the President felt humiliated to appear weak. (A racially charged term, ‘thugs’ ironically derives from an Indian gang that favoured murder by strangulation.) Then the President fuelled the fire with George Wallace’s foolish rhyme: ‘hen the looting starts, the shooting starts,’ In an overdue first, Twitter flagged his tweet as glorifying violence.Īs protests reached the White House the next night, the President hid in his bunker. The President set the tone on 28 May by calling the culprits ‘THUGS’. Racial protests began spreading to more than 350 United States cities, mixed with sporadic but intense looting and anti-police violence. The aptly-named Officer Chauvin wasn’t too nice for nine minutes on the neck of a black man who (unlike the pre-Trump police) was truly handcuffed. Some officers nationwide acted on it without consequence – until the fateful killing of George Floyd, on Memorial Day 2020 in Minneapolis. The police in the audience guffawed at the President’s call for brutality. In a 2017 speech, the President beseeched officers not to protect a suspect’s head as they shove him into a squad car: ‘Please don’t be too nice… okay?’ The Pentagon resumed the unlimited domestic supply of combat weapons. (Kroll should know, having been investigated for misconduct 29 times himself.) The Department of Justice (DoJ) defunded police reform, and stopped seeking court supervision for violent agencies. ‘The first thing’ Trump did as President, according to the Minneapolis police union head Bob Kroll, was take the ‘handcuffs’ off cops. IBAHRI webinar - Black Lives Matter: a challenge to the law.IBA and IBAHRI call on the US to address racism and police brutality in wake of George Floyd killing.George Floyd killing: discriminatory, disproportionate use of force by police undermines rule of law.
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