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“They’re not protesters,” Trump said Friday at a rally at Manchester, New Hampshire airport. “They’re anarchists, they’re agitators, they’re troublemakers, they’re looters.”
Comments came when thousands of others piled up Friday at the Lincoln Memorial to call for racial equality and criminal justice reform in what they called the “Get Your Knees Off Your Neck” march to commemorate Martin Luther King’s 57th anniversary.’s “I Have a Dream” march. Speak up.”
The event in Washington set the stage for a weekend of protests planned in Chicago and other cities. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, addressed the crowd by video, quoting the late Congressman John Lewis: “As John put it, ‘Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor.’”
Counterprotests were also planned through right-wing teams for Saturday in Portland, Oregon and Asheville, North Carolina.
The most recent protests came after a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot black Jacob Blake seven times in the back last Sunday. Two nights later, two protesters were killed and a third was injured in an upcoming shooting. A hearing to extradite the 17-year-old suspect in the case, Kyle Rittenhouse, from his home state of Illinois to Wisconsin has been delayed for 30 days. CNN also reported Friday that he had his handcuffs being removing Blake’s hospital bed.
Kenosha police said Friday that they tried to knock Blake out with Taser weapons after several attempts to arrest him. When this failed, he overlooked his car, opened the driver’s door and leaned forward. While holding Blake’s shirt, the officer fired. Blake said he had a knife in his possession, police said. The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Criminal Investigation Division, which is in charge of the investigation, also recovered a knife from the vehicle driver, he said.
Some protesters who stayed after the march in the country’s capital on Friday ended up fighting with police, the final primary roads, adding Key Bridge and Whitehurst Freeway, the Washington Post reported.
In Portland, about a dozen protesters piled up Friday night in the lobby of Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment, the Oregonian reported. More than 150 more people were on the street outside the building, which is not an easy relief in the police budget and the resignation of the mayor and the police commissioner, the newspaper said.
Facebook apologizes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the company was too slow to remove a page that violated its policy on harmful organizations in the hours leading up to the fatal shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. for violating Facebook’s policies on defense force organizations, according to a spokeswoman.
The resolution has resulted in a #DeleteFacebook on Twitter.
Playoffs NBA
Trump also rebuked athletes and professional sports for canceling games to protest racial injustice and said the National Basketball Association would “destroy basketball.”
“You know, when you watch sports, you need to relax, yet it’s a totally different world,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday night after the election rally. “It’s terrible. I think what they do in the NBA in particular will destroy basketball.”
The NBA playoffs will resume Saturday after players withdrew from games to protest Blake’s shooting. In announcing the deal, national basketball players’ executive director Michele Roberts and NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league would form a social justice coalition for access to voting, civic participation, and unscrupulous police and justice reform.
In cities where an NBA team has its own arena, the team will work with local officials to make it a polling place for this year’s general election. And in-game ads from the playoffs will be assigned to announce civic engagement and voter access.
In an interview with Bloomberg News, Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter compared the U.S. riots to the riots in his local Turkey several years ago. He lamented American political polarization. “Our purpose is the same,” he said, “what can we do to make this country bigger together?”
The Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics also left the area after a moment of silence, opting not to play Friday night, AP said.
Key developments:
ESPN reviews are reinforced by game cancellations. Trump says athletes’ protests will “destroy basketball” Trump says protesters for racial justice “Just Looking For Trouble” will resume Saturday; The Social Justice League announces social justice actions Harris says a Wisconsin official will be charged with what he saw when the athletes marched, was it a boycott or a strike?: QuickTake Trump forgives Johnson after the conference was overshadowed by racial tensions.
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(An earlier one of this story corrected the spelling of Emmett Till’s name.
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