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re: US BURNS as Scared TRUMP Runs to Bunker & White House Goes Dark
George Floyd Death: America Burns as 23 States Protest > Police Deliberately Drive SUV into Crowds as Trump Comments Inflame Tensions
There has been widespread outrage in the US following the death of another unarmed black man at the hands of a US police officer
Saturday Trump belittled some of the protesters who have taken to the streets in cities across the United States, and raised the prospect of deploying violence against the American people for the second time in two days. He drew fierce condemnation for using the language of violent segregationists during the civil rights era.
Daily Mirror UK / The Guardian / Irish Central, 31 MAY 2020
Late on Friday, as protesters gathered in front of the White House, Trump had tweeted that protesters could have been attacked with “vicious dogs and ominous weapons” wielded by the US Secret Service. He also attacked the mayor for supposedly not providing police to protect the White House.
We're rapidly reaching a cultural tipping point - and the iceberg that sinks Trump will be Trump himself.
“They let the ‘protesters’ scream and rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard – didn’t know what hit them,” Trump said.
Without evidence, the president claimed the protesters were “professionally” organized.
“If they had breached the fence” he said, “they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”
Bowser, an onlooker, said that she stood with peaceful protesters while Trump “hides behind his fence”.
“To make a reference to vicious dogs is no subtle reminder to African Americans of segregationists who let dogs out on women, children and innocent people in the south,” Bowser said.
She added:
“There are no vicious dogs & ominous weapons. There is just a scared man. Afraid/Alone.”
Mirror US Editor Christopher Bucktin reporting from the scene of one of the protests (Image: Chris Bucktin)
George Floyd Death: Police 'Deliberately Drive SUV into Crowds' as Protests Rage Across US
A shocking video appears to show a police cruiser charging towards demonstrators in New York, while tear gas has been fired outside the White House as crowds demand justice following George Floyd's death
A police cruiser has knocked protesters to the ground in New York City as protests over the death of George Floyd continue to rage.
A shocking video posted on Twitter on Saturday night appears to show the NYPD vehicle being deliberately driven into crowds in Brooklyn.
Trump, a President as Cruel and Low as The Time We Live In
"I think it's undeniable the wheels have come off the entire Trump presidency at the same time as they're coming off the nation. Trump prefers to fan the flames"
Over 101,000 Americans have died, 40 million Americans have become unemployed, but instead of offering words to heal and help Trump did what he always does in a crisis, throw petrol on the culture war's flames.
Even Taylor Swift has had enough of him.
Clearly, if Taylor is speaking out we're reaching a tipping point. When you have lost the nation's sweetheart, you've lost America.
Yesterday, she decided she could take no more. Responding to his threat to have the military shoot American citizens in Minnesota, she Tweeted:
“You have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence?”
There is an inevitability to it. Elect a cruel and callow president and - as night follows day - you will usher in a cruel and callow age.
The coronavirus has been busy pulling the mask off every systemic inequality and ever festering social sore in the nation as it flares up and continues to transmit from coast to coast.
Reflect that right now coronavirus is raging especially hard through the most deprived zip codes in the nation, most all of them communities of color, and the people who live there are dying at double and triple the rates of everyone else.
Nearly 23 percent of reported Covid-19 deaths in the United States are African Americans, even though black people make up roughly just 13 percent of the population. These are the people he is now threatening with violence.
Reflect that if you're a young black male in America in 2020, you can’t go for a jog, you can’t wear a mask to the grocery store, you can’t wear a hoodie in public, you can’t even go birding in the Central Park Rambles without the constant threat of racial profiling, arrest, choking or being shot.
It’s systemic state terror. It simply has to stop.
This week we watched Trump threaten the Minneapolis rioters, some of whom were white and filmed looting under highly questionable circumstances, but where was his outrage when a far more significant public heist occurred right under his nose?
American billionaires have gotten at least $434 billion richer during this pandemic. Where is his discomfort over that?
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg reportedly saw the biggest gains, with Bezos adding $34.6 billion to his wealth and Zuckerberg adding $25 billion.
With consumers trapped at home for over two and a half months, online retail orders inevitably exploded (along with the trading markets) to the point where Amazon has said it’s now hiring 75,000 more workers.
So as ordinary Americans cower at home and hope a biblical plague will pass their doorstep, billionaires here were being rewarded with even more unimaginable riches at the same time 40 million Americans lost their jobs.
The imbalance between these two worlds has become extraordinary and dangerous. The 400 richest Americans now have as much combined wealth as the poorest 64 percent of American households.
Add to that that the poorest 64 percent pay more in taxes than Bezos.
As lines for food handouts stretch for block after block and the predominantly undocumented workers who ran the cities bars and restaurants before the lockdown are thrown to the wolves, the nations five richest billionaires - Bezos, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Larry Ellison - all saw combined wealth gains of $76 billion.
There's been a lot of handwringing articles about the looting in Minneapolis. I have barely seen any about this ongoing heist. How long can this go on before tumbrels roll?
More Americans have died in the last two and a half months than US soldiers died in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and all the US wars since 9/11 – combined. We could use national leadership now to navigate the challenges facing us, but it is MIA.
The United States is only 4 percent of the world's population but it has 29 percent of all Covid-19 deaths. That, by any metric, is a catastrophic public disaster.
It is a total failure of leadership.
TRUMP Golfs While Americans Die-Taxpayers Pay $133.8mil Golf Tab
THE SONYA IVANOFF LAW 2007;
The law mandates a sentence of 99 years to any officer who murders someone while on duty.
NB: RIOTERS are just THIEVES & LOOTERS and not peaceful protesters, they should receive harsh prison time for taking advantage of this very sad situation..
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