Stunned individuals came together in city after city across America to grieve George Floyd’s death by a Minneapolis MN police officer. A second coroner ruled it homicide by asphyxiation. These protesters came to make their message heard — “no more police violence. Enough!” And they came to celebrate George Floyd’s life, chanting “Say his name! George Floyd. Say his name! George Floyd. Say his name! George Floyd.”
At this time of a Greater Depression, at least 40 million people are out of work, small businesses are collapsing, and 106,000 people have fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic through POTUS’ mismanagement. America has had enough. George Floyd’s life and death may be the tipping point where this 243-year-old nation of ours begins to creak as events cause its gears to turn and change ripples throughout this great country.
The states have risen up with governors filling the vacuum that Donald Trump was supposed to fill as president of these United States. Americans’ amazing creativity and ingenuity will find a way to cross the bridge from the broken old ways to something far better. But has what happened to the man who was supposed to be leading the country. Was he out playing golf?
No, Trump turned off the White House lights during another protest across the street and fled to the secret bunker in the White House complex. Unlike Attorney General Bobby Kennedy after Martin Luther King had been murdered, who saw it as his duty to go to the crowds, Trump hid behind the skirts of his Secret Service. The crowd chanted:
‘Say his name! George Floyd.’
During the White House press conference Monday, Press Secretary Kaleigh McEnany fielded a question from one journalist who said:
‘There is the perception that the president is hiding in the bunker on the racial protests issue. He was literally put in a bunker on Friday night by the Secret Service. I mean, would you agree that he’s hiding out on this issue? And is that a good posture to be?’
The Press Secretary said she had talked to Trump via phone. For some reason, she believed that POTUS was being presidential. He met with generals, apparently more fearful than anyone knew, because generals do not solve American racial problems. Presidents do — at least they should. McEnany responded to the journalist:
I would not agree with that at all. [They talked] at least a half of dozen times yesterday. And every time I talk to him, he was telling me about a different action he had taken.This president has been leading, he met with generals yesterday. He’s at each and every moment taking another action to try to solve and resolve what we’ve seen in our streets. Where the governors have failed, he’s stepped in. He’s acting! He’s hard at work. You’ve heard from him on this issue any number of times.’
National Reporter for The Daily Beast Scott Bixby tweeted a copy of one of the full-page ads Trump took out in The New York Times. In it, POTUS had called for “the execution of the Central Park Five,” who had been charged with raping a white woman in the park. DNA evidence exonerated them after they had served their time in prison. Trump called for returning the death penalty — to kill these innocent young men:
‘This is the full-page advertisement Donald Trump took out calling for the execution of the Central Park Five. They were later exonerated by DNA evidence, although President Trump maintains that they are guilty.’
Listen to the press conference below:
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