NEW: President Trump calls governors facing unrest “weak,” urges stronger police tactics, according to a source on the call.
The president also called the start of the Minnesota response “weak and pathetic” and said that protestors have likely spread out to other cities after leaving Minneapolis. The person said Trump seemed obsessed with antifa and Occupy Wall Street, which he said was handled well by comparison and “just went away one day.”
“You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again,” Trump said on the call, according to the person. The White House billed the event as a “video teleconference with governors, law enforcement, and national security officials on keeping American communities safe.”
Trump’s solution to the unrest has been to call for stronger law enforcement rather than calling for calm or addressing the concerns about police brutality and racism that many protestors say drove them to come out. Critics say an escalation in force would exacerbate already high tensions between protestors and the police.
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