I’ve posted about how journalist Tom Hauser at Gov Tim Walz’s Saturday press conference, 30 May, introduced the “white supremacist” narrative in what seemed a staged event designed for that purpose.
see comments #76 to #81 - re Tom Hauser, KSTP-TV, an ABC affiliate.
Minnesota Democrats: ‘White Supremacists’ Instigating Race Riots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3850053/posts?q=1&;page=51
what happened immediately before 30 May?
Trump included in a tweet “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”. Twitter took action. FakeNewsMSM beat up the story, with claims the phrase originated with racist Miami Chief Walter Headley and “segregationist” George Wallace, though Trump claimed he knew nothing of this “history”.
Wikipedia: When the looting starts, the shooting starts
In August 1968, while Headley, a DEMOCRAT...
In the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 tweet, others wrote that Trump was giving a dog whistle to what they considered his racist base, and that the president’s words were supposedly uttered by notable pro-segregationist former Governor of Alabama and multiple U.S. presidential candidate, George Wallace...
The fact-checker Snopes clarified that although there was an article published in 2005 which supported the claim, there actually is NO CONTEMPORARY (1960s ERA) RECORD of Wallace using the exact phrase Trump tweeted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_shooting_starts
almost all MSM failed to mention Headley was a DEMOCRAT. almost all carry the lie about George Wallace. most did not note Wallace was a DEMOCRAT. examples:
29 May: WaPo: ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’: Trump quotes Miami police chief’s notorious 1967 warning
By Michael S. Rosenwald
The police, Chief Walter Headley warned, would use shotguns and dogs at his command...
The looting quote was echoed by others, including presidential candidate George Wallace, who uttered it on the campaign trail...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/29/when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts-trump-walter-headley/
29 May: NPR: The History Behind ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’
by Barbara Sprunt
In 1967, Miami police Chief Walter Headley used the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”.
“He had a long history of bigotry against the black community,” said professor Clarence Lusane of Howard University...
Segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace also used the phrase during the 1968 campaign...
According to Lusane, Headley may have borrowed the phrase from Eugene “Bull” Connor (DEMOCRAT), who had been the notorious public safety commissioner in Birmingham, Ala. Connor was a segregationist who directed the use of police dogs and fire hoses against black demonstrators...
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts
Walter Headley obit - The Tampa Tribune 11/17/1968 - Associated Press
Miami Mayor Stephen P. Clark (DEMOCRAT) said yesterday Headley’s policy “will always be in existence in this city”.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (DEMOCRAT) praised Headley when he announced the policy. And Headley said Chicago police followed his lead in handling demonstrators at the democratic National Convention there in August.
“Mayor Daley went right along with my suggestion,” Headley said...
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16699748/walter-headley-obit-the-tampa/
one big happy DEMOCRAT family. how many protesters would know their history? ANTIFA might, but they have their own political agenda.
but Trump is to blame?
needless to say, NYT despite all the “writers” couldn’t mention Headley was a DEMOCRAT:
29 May: NYT: How Trump’s Twitter Remarks Escalate Growing Crisis in Minneapolis
by Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns; Katie Glueck and Astead W. Herndon contributed reporting
President Trump issued a violent ultimatum to protesters in Minneapolis on Friday and inserted himself in a harshly divisive fashion into the growing crisis there, attacking the city’s Democratic mayor and raising the specter that the military could use armed force to suppress riots that erupted after the death of George Floyd...
In saying “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” Mr. Trump echoed a phrase coined by a Miami police chief in the 1960s about crackdowns on black neighborhoods during times of unrest. Walter Headley, the Miami police chief in 1967, warned that young black men who he called “hoodlums” had “taken advantage of the civil rights campaign,” and added, “We don’t mind being accused of police brutality.”...
Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign made a broad appeal to white grievances.
And when conflicts involving race has arisen during his presidency, Mr. Trump has often avoided taking a clear position. When neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and a counterprotester was killed, Mr. Trump condemned the death but told reporters there were “very fine people” on “both sides” of the matter, prompting outrage...
At a virtual fund-raiser on Thursday, Mr. Biden opened his remarks with a somber reflection on Mr. Floyd’s death, calling it a “brutal, brutal death.” He described the nation as struggling with “an open wound” and nodded to “an ingrained systemic cycle of racism and oppression” in America.
“It’s ripped open anew this — this ugly underbelly of our society,” he said...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/trump-looting-shooting.html
SAME URL BELOW HAS THIS AS THE FINAL PARA - “YOU AIN’T BLACK” IS ALREADY FORGOTTEN!
NYT: And as in other arenas of the 2020 campaign, Mr. Trump is confronting an elusive rival in Mr. Biden, who is one of only a few major figures left in the Democratic Party who can claim both a deep bond with black voters and a relatively conservative record on matters of law enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/trump-looting-shooting.html
29 May: NYT: ‘Looting’ Comment From Trump Dates Back to Racial Unrest of the 1960s
The phrase the president tweeted, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” was used by a Miami police chief widely condemned by civil rights groups.
By Michael Wines; Katie Rogers contributed reporting, and Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.
WASHINGTON — An incendiary phrase used by President Trump in a tweet about the protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis appears to have originated in a 1967 news conference held by a Miami police chief long accused of using racist tactics in his force’s patrols of black neighborhoods...
The phrase was used prominently by Walter E. Headley, Miami’s former police chief, in 1967 as he pledged a no-holds-barred response to a Christmas-season outbreak of violent crime in black neighborhoods that had left three people dead in attempted robberies...
The chief said his crackdown was aimed at the 10 percent of black people in Miami whom he called “young hoodlums, 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign” to commit crimes with seeming impunity.
But national and local civil rights leaders immediately denounced his remarks. Floyd McKissick, the chair of the Congress of Racial Equality, charged that Mr. Headley was “setting up the first fascist state of Miami.”...
The president of the Miami chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., Dr. George Simpson, expressed fear that the chief was directing his force “to revert to the law-enforcement practices of 15 or 20 years ago when, in too many instances, to be black was to be guilty.” The field secretary of the group’s Florida chapter, Marvin Davies, said, “This man has no place in a position of public trust.”
Mr. Headley repeated the phrase the following August in response to protests in the predominantly black Liberty City neighborhood during the 1968 Republican National Convention, which was being held in Miami. Criticized for not returning from a vacation to address the situation, he said of his officers, “They know what to do. When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
The chief told Miami legislators in 1967 that his blunt remarks had been partly misinterpreted, and while running the department, he tried to cast himself as a hard-liner on crime without regard to race...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/looting-starts-shooting-starts.html
AP would have been carried widely, no DEMOCRAT for Headley or Wallace, and lies about Wallace:
29 May: NYT: Trump’s Tweet About Rioters Echoes 1960s Miami Police Chief
By The Associated Press; Shafner reported from New York.
CHICAGO — President Donald Trump’s tweeted warning Friday amid unrest in Minneapolis that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” echoes the language of a Miami police chief in 1967 who made clear his distaste for civil rights activists and his belief that violent protests should be met with deadly force.
The language has also been attributed to segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace in a 1968 campaign speech in Pittsburgh...
The phrase first made headlines when Miami Police Chief Walter Headley uttered it in a 1967 speech outlining his department’s efforts to “combat young hoodlums who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign.” ...
(Al) Sharpton said Trump’s “race-tinged” comments reminded him of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley calling on police “to shoot to kill” arsonists and “maim or cripple” looters in the April 1968 riots in the city following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I don’t know if the history of it was in his head or someone around him said it and he liked the sound of it,” Sharpton said. “But it’s certainly in his spirit, and it poisons an already volatile situation.”
Wallace, who pushed pro-segregationist policies as governor of Alabama, used the same phrase as he campaigned in Pennsylvania in 1968, according to a 2005 column by a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer who was at the event.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/29/us/ap-us-trump-minneapolis-death-quote-.html