- George Floyd protests have multiplied and escalated around the country this weekend, as Americans poured into the streets to protest the killing by Minneapolis police of an unarmed man during his arrest.
- This all comes even as the US is still trying to deal with the coronavirus pandemic — infections, and deaths from which are still on the rise.
- President Trump will likely point to the protests this weekend if we see a spike in coronavirus cases over the coming days, to take attention away from his administration’s response to the virus.
No question, this has been a depressing weekend in the US. Anyone who’s opened their social media feeds since Friday night will have been greeted with scenes offering a mixture of peaceful, loud and emotional, and in some cases violent and out-of-control protests in major cities around the US, as the killing of an unarmed man named George Floyd by Minneapolis police touched a raw, painful nerve in the American psyche.
“LAW & ORDER!” reads a terse tweet President Trump posted Sunday afternoon, after using the social network earlier in he day to call on cities and states around the country to call in more National Guard troops. I point to the president’s Twitter account, the subject of even more scrutiny than ever these days, because I fully expect to see some version of the following emanate from it soon: My prediction is that any surge in coronavirus cases over the coming days will be blamed by the president on the protestors who’ve filled the nation’s streets this weekend.
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Prediction: President Trump will blame a spike in coronavirus cases on all the protests originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 31 May 2020 at 20:00:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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