US Trump threatens to shoot those protesting police brutality
US President Donald J. Trump (Photo credit: REUTERS)
May 28, 2020 (SSNN) – United States President Donald Trump has threatened to shoot angry protesters who took to streets in the US city of Minneapolis to denounce police brutality against the black American community.
On Monday, a black man identified as George Floyd was arrested at a Minneapolis grocery store after police were notified by an employee that he was allegedly trying to pass a counterfeit $20, according to a previous KSAT report.
A cellphone video surfaced on social media, showing Floyd’s arrest. Floyd was seen on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back as he was being arrested by a police officer who was later on identified as Derek Chauvin.
The video also revealed Chauvin pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck at the time of his arrest.
Floyd told officers he couldn’t breathe, repeatedly. However, minutes later, Floyd appeared to go unconscious. The video ended with paramedics taking Floyd in an ambulance.
He was later pronounced deceased at a hospital.
Afterward, protesters took to the streets including taking control of a police station.
In a Facebook post today, Trump threatened to deploy troops and shoot those protesters who would dare to loot.
“I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis,” Trump wrote in a post that has so far gone viral. “A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.”
He said he spoke to “Governor Tim Walz [of Minnesota] and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
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