From usatodayopinion: When Black Lives Matter protests turn violent, Donald Trump gets just what he wants.
What began as righteous protests, in response to the unjustified killing of a Black man by a white police officer, have partly morphed in some places into rioting by an angry mob.
If the combination of President Donald Trump and coronavirus had forced people to turn off their TVs for the past two months, in an effort to preserve their sanity, tuning back in today would give people little idea what prompted the chaos playing out on the streets of Portland.
There was a surge of unity across political borderlines as this country spent nine brutal minutes watching a police officer squeeze the life out of a Black man, as his face was pressed to a cement street in America’s heartland. The raw horror of Floyd’s killing made it acceptable for the words “Black lives matter” to escape Republican lips.
The president has no control over local police. But Attorney General William Barr’s surrender of Justice Department independence, and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s zeal to please his boss, have allowed Trumpunder the guise of protecting federal buildings. By design rather than circumstance, federal officers were offered as bait. Protesters were drawn to feds in combat gear like moths to a flame. When federal agents responded with force, the protesters responded with force — which made the agents respond with even more force.
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