Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Sunday that President Donald Trump's tweets have only helped to stoke the rage fueling the anti-police brutality protests that turned violent in multiple American cities.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Sunday President Donald Trump's tweets have only helped to stoke the rage fueling the anti-police brutality protests that turned violent in multiple American cities.
Cities across the U.S. have seen violent protests in response to the May 25 death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died after a Minneapolis police officer restrained him by placing his knee on the back of his neck. "This is not about using military force. This is about where we are in America. We are beyond a tipping point in this country. And his rhetoric only inflames that. And he should just sometimes stop talking," Bottoms said.Twitter slapped one presidential tweet – which said,"when the looting starts, the shooting starts" – with a warning that it violated the company's rules against"glorifying violence.
"I think that the president has a responsibility to help calm the nation, and he can start by not sending divisive tweets that are meant to hearken to the segregationist past of our country," Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said Sunday on NBC News'"Meet the Press."Bowser said. So what you see in cities across our nations, what we saw last night, there are people who are angry and people who are hurting. And some doing it in ways that are helpful to our cause.
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