Trump has never apologized, telling reporters last year: “You have people on both sides of that.” In 1989, he took out full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, five young men of color who were wrongly convicted of a brutal assault on a jogger.
Trump has a long history of injecting himself into racially sensitive cases. Trump has, however, invoked those words on several occasions to mock political rivals, even bringing his hands to his neck for dramatic effect. Video of the encounter was viewed millions of times online and Garner’s dying words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. He has never addressed the 2014 death of Eric Garner, who was placed in a chokehold by police trying to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.
“This is something that is a local matter and that’s something that we feel should be left up to the local authorities,” then-White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said at the time. Trump has been silent on a number of high-profile police-involved killings, including that of Stephon Clark, a black man shot by Sacramento police in 2018. “This has nothing to do with politics and is only about making sure justice is done, and anyone who suggests otherwise is only seeking to sow division and ignore the President’s unwavering support for the African-American community,” Deere said, citing Trump’s support for criminal justice reform legislation, Opportunity Zones and historically black colleges and universities. White House spokesman Judd Deere said Trump was taking the death seriously. “So therefore he cannot be upset when people feel that it’s empty words because it is so out of character.” Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist and Trump critic who has known the president for decades. “This is the first race-tinged case that I’ve ever heard him address” as president, said the Rev. But some activists doubt that Trump has suddenly evolved on the issue of police brutality and instead see election-year political calculations. Once more likely to hew to the “blue lives matter” mantra, Trump and his allies are questioning an officer’s conduct and calling for justice for Floyd. “I feel very, very badly," Trump said Thursday of George Floyd's death while handcuffed and in the custody of Minneapolis police. But it was a very different tone for President Donald Trump, who has often been silent in the face of white-on-black violence and has a long history of defending police. In the essay, published by Daily Beast, Clooney called for "systemic change" in the US to tackle the problem of racism.WASHINGTON - It was the kind of personal statement expected from a president in response to the disturbing video of a black man gasping for help as a white policeman pinned him to the street by the neck. This isn't Clooney's first time speaking out about the issue of systemic racism in the US.Įarlier this month, Clooney penned an essay about the fight against systemic racism following the death of George Floyd, saying that racism is the "greatest pandemic" of the US, and there hasn't been a "vaccine" for it even after 400 years. But nobody had ever heard of it," Trump told the newspaper.
It's actually an important event, an important time. "I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous. My family will be donating 500 thousand dollars to the Equal Justice Initiative in honour of your heroic efforts," read Clooney's statement.Ĭlooney's remarks come after Trump boasted in a recent interview in the Wall Street Journal saying that he had made the June holiday "very famous" while discussing his decision to host a campaign rally in Oklahoma amid ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. Much like when Bull Connor made 'Civil Rights' famous. "Thank you President Trump for 'making Juneteenth famous'. He said his donation was a response to Trump's claim, reports. Juneteenth, which fell on June 19, is a day that marks the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States.Ĭlooney will also be donating $500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative. Los Angeles: Hollywood star George Clooney has slammed US President Donald Trump for sarcastically claiming that he "made Juneteenth famous".
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