John’s Church close to the White House, calling that and other developments acts of “domestic terror.” Trump mentioned a fire set at the historic St. He did not mention any instances of police advancing on protesters or injuries or deaths among activists. He cited several examples in his speech of aggression toward law enforcement in recent days and vandalism of local businesses. “But we cannot allow the righteous cries of peaceful protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob.” He will not have died in vain,” Trump said. My administration is fully committed that for George’s family justice will be served. “Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd. Instead, they committed to Trump’s insistence that “law and order” win out over unruly demonstrators. The president’s Rose Garden speech came after debate over whether he should deliver a formal address in light of the turmoil that has engulfed the nation.īut his prepared remarks only briefly touched on Floyd’s death - and did not cover the unrest over police brutality leading up to the protests. Video captured by onlookers spread across the internet, provoking massive outrage throughout the United States. curfew would be “strictly enforced.”įloyd, an unarmed black man, was killed in Minneapolis police custody one week ago after a white officer knelt on his neck. New York City and other metropolitan areas had imposed similar curfews in an attempt to contain the unruly protests. Moments earlier, Attorney General William Barr was spotted reviewing the law enforcement setup at the park.Ī citywide curfew instituted by D.C.’s Democratic mayor was set to go into effect at 7 p.m., and National Guard troops had assembled in the nation’s capital to back up law enforcement. Several loud bangs echoed just before Trump took the podium as law enforcement fired tear gas into a crowd of peaceful protesters.
While Trump spoke in the Rose Garden, hundreds of people were gathered just outside Lafayette Park across the street from the White House to protest for a fourth consecutive night. The comments offered a stunning split screen to the strife that has engulfed the nation following the death of George Floyd. Trump also said he was dispatching “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property” in the nation’s capital. It was last used in 1992 to respond to riots following the acquittal of police officers accused of beating Rodney King. A senior Defense Department official said Trump had not enacted the Insurrection Act, which gives the president the power to deploy active military troops on U.S. troops to patrol states without governors requesting them. It was not immediately clear under what authority Trump could deploy U.S. military and quickly solve the problem for them.” “If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the U.S. “Mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled,” he said. If they refused, he said, he would send troops to American cities. Trump said he was dispatching the military across Washington, D.C., and urged governors nationwide to “dominate” their streets with National Guard deployments. President Trump on Monday said he would mobilize “all available federal resources, civilian and military” to clamp down on protests across the country, declaring himself the “president of law and order” as police aggressively dispersed protesters gathered outside the White House.
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