Friday, June 19, 2020

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

“Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “It will be a much different scene!”

In his tweet, Mr. Trump drew no distinction between peaceful protesters, whose right to assemble and speak out is protected by the First Amendment, and violent looters...

Mr. Trump issued his threat on Juneteenth [And in the city the site of the Black Wall Street massacre in 1921]

(NYT)