Civil rights leaders are calling on Minneapolis officials not to use military force against protestors.
WASHINGTON — Conjuring up memories of police confrontations with protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, national civil rights leaders urged Minneapolis officials not toand called out President Donald Trump for potentially inciting more violence.
“It is in such times, when tensions are at their highest, that officials should exercise their discretion and lead the way toward peaceful resolution,’’ the leaders wrote. “But this is 2020. This is the United States,’’ he said. “We can address issues such as this in a very civil manner because the law is clear.”
Civil rights leaders pointed to police using tear gas and projectiles against protesters earlier in the week. “This type of militarized response to communities mourning the death of a member only serves to escalate tensions,’’ they wrote.Civil rights leaders said tension was only heightened by“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Trump tweeted, adding that he had spoken to Gov. Tim Walz and told him that"the Military is with him all the way.
Civil rights leaders said it’s not the first time Trump hasn’t done enough to clamp down on violence and racial tensions. They pointed to when Trump said “both sides” were to blame for violence during a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 that led to one death, and that there were “very fine people on both sides” at the protests, where white supremacists marched under Confederate and Nazi flags.protesting the stay-at-home for the coronavirus pandemic.
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