After that she said, "Allahu Akbar!"
Posted on 05/10/2020 8:39:36 AM PDT by blam
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms compared the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in February to lynchings in the Jim Crow-era South and said that President Trump’s rhetoric give racists “permission to do it in an overt way.”
Bottoms’ comments, made during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” come just days after a white father and son were charged with the February shooting death of Arbery as he was running through a Georgia neighborhood.
“It’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African-American man,” Bottoms said. “My heart goes out to the family.”
“With the rhetoric we hear coming out of the White House,” she added, “many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way we wouldn’t see in 2020.”
President Trump, speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Friday, described Arbery’s death as “a heartbreaking thing,” and said he had seen the video footage of the killing, which he described as "disturbing" to anyone who watched it.
“I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo … I will say that that looks like a really good young guy,” Trump told "Fox & Friends."
He said the state's governor and law enforcement would be looking at the case "strongly."
The president said "justice getting done is the thing that solves that problem," when asked about the racial issues in the case.
Bottoms' comments echo those made by many civil rights’ leaders across the country, who have drawn comparisons to Arbery’s murder to that of Emmett Till and other black men in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Another filthy race baiting pos.
Flynn case? WHAT Flynn case?
Of course...it’s always Trump’s fault. I would really love for someone to actually point out the “racist rhetoric” that Trump has used.
This is one of the most irresponsible lies I’ve ever heard from a major public official. The media will give a pass, or even reinforce it.
At least Arbery the “jogger” died with his (Timberland) boots on.
What “rhetoric coming out of the White Housee”?
Is it national news when a black guy shoots a white person?
Unlike a Bush, Trump won’t take this sitting down.
Was there a video of a crime shortly before Trevon, I mean Ahmud, was shot?
The shots were in self-defense, not murder or a lynching.
Yeah. I want to see the quote.
After that she said, "Allahu Akbar!"
Guess the pandemic scare is over, “they” are back to inciting race riots
Well, time for the race card again.
It never expires.
How queer, there is a lynch mob making death threats against the neighbor who videoed the confrontation.
So does the mayor think some lynch mobs are acceptable?
Denounce all vigilantes.
So according to him we’re all guilty for the actions of two others, just because they have been artificially placed into an artificial group of which we are considered members?
So according to him we’re all guilty for the actions of two others, just because they have been artificially placed into an artificial group of which we are considered members?
Oh, did she watch the a.m. joy show? Or is it the normal demoprog daily talking point.
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