The City, which has already begun to paint in various sectors of the metropolis this message which means Black Lives Matter
specified that it would materialize within a week on Fifth Avenue, between 56th and 57th streets, that is to say in front of the Trump Tower.
The president is a disgrace to the values we cherish in New York
said a spokeswoman for the mayor, Julia Arredondo, in a statement.
« He can’t run away or deny the reality we’re subjected to, and every time he wants to set foot in the place he claims is his hometown, he’ll be reminded that black lives matter. . »
Loving yourself very badly treated
by his hometown, the president decided to make Palm Beach, Florida his new tax residence last November.
Like more than 2,000 American cities – from Boston to Los Angeles via Atlanta and Denver – New York has seen large crowds in recent weeks in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd, killed by a white policeman, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The movement has mobilized hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets of cities and towns across the country demanding equal access to justice for African Americans and an end to police brutality.
President Trump unhappy
By his decision, Mayor de Blasio, a Democrat, has drawn the wrath of the president, who has criticized the decision to paint these words on the legendary and magnificent Fifth Avenue
.
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According to New York Timesprotesters in New York never actually chanted this message, which was instead used in Minnesota in 2015 and a scene of which was recently broadcast by Fox News, the Republican president’s favorite network.
Only warped minds equate the words Black Lives Matter with violence. It is a movement that aims to recognize and protect the lives of black people. Nobody’s surprised it makes you feel uncomfortable
responded on Twitter the mayor de Blasio.
A week ago, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at tackling police brutality that Democrats and African American rights activists deemed grossly insufficient.
However, he showed himself hostile to the major reforms demanded by the demonstrators, presenting himself as the president of public order and multiplying on Twitter the messages valuing public order!
Earlier in the day, the president accused on Fox News one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement of treason, sedition and insurrection
who threatened to burn this system to ashes
if there were no major changes.
The mayor of Blasio for his part has a coast to go up with his fellow citizens. Married to a black woman, he was reproached for tolerating increasingly muscular police interventions against the demonstrators. Earlier this month, he even got booed at a ceremony honoring George Floyd in Brooklyn.
He was also accused of having been slow to suppress the looting that shook uptown Manhattan.
Two weeks ago, after 10 nights of protests, he announced that some of the funds allocated to the police would be redirected to social programs.
