Donald Trump courted controversy on Monday – and perhaps sought to deflect attention from reports about Russia placing bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan – by retweeting news footage of a white couple in St Louis, Missouri who pointed guns at protesters marching for police reform.
The president’s action came a day after he retweeted footage of protesters clashing in Florida in which a Trump supporter could be heard to say “White power! White power!”
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The protesters in St Louis were marching to the mayor’s home to demand her resignation. In a Facebook live briefing on Friday, Lyda Krewson read the names and addresses of several residents who wrote letters suggesting she defund the police department.
The video was removed from Facebook and Krewson apologized on Friday, stating she did not “intend to cause distress”.
On Sunday a group of at least 500 people headed towards the mayor’s home, chanting, “Resign Lyda, take the cops with you.”
A social media video showed the unidentified armed white couple standing outside their home on Sunday evening in the Central West End neighbourhood, shouting at protesters. People in the march moved the crowd forward, urging participants to ignore them.
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Trump’s retweet also came after a gunman in Louisville, Kentucky, shot dead a photographer during protests over the death of Breonna Taylor, an African American woman killed by police in her own home.
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On Monday morning, Trump also retweeted a series of messages seeking to identify protesters involved in attempts to remove statues of figures from American history.
Guardian
Here's the post Trump retweeted:
UPDATE:
So...he DID hear it. We knew it.
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