Barack Obama addressed the George Floyd protests happening across the country, condemning acts of violence and encouraging protestors to turn to political action
Protests in response to Floyd's killing occurred in dozens of American cities in recent days, resulting in some deaths as well as widely shared videos and images of citizens and police clashing on streets across the country. Many videos shared across social media showed police using aggressive force against people at protests sites, including using vehicles and riot gear against unprotected individuals.
"When we think about politics, a lot of us focus only on the presidency and the federal government," Obama wrote Monday. "And yes, we should be fighting to make sure that we have a president, a Congress, a U.S. Justice Department, and a federal judiciary that actually recognize the ongoing, corrosive role that racism plays in our society and want to do something about it.
"If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves," he wrote.Martin Luther King's Daughter Says 'Only Way to Get Constructive Change Is Through Nonviolent Means'Protestors demonstrate outside of a burning fast food restaurant, in Minneapolis on May 29, 2020.
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