Twitter placed a warning label on one of Donald Trump‘s tweets, saying that the president was “glorifying violence” by threatening to shoot protestors in Minneapolis.
The protestors, who are rallying after an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, 46, died after telling police he couldn’t breathe during an arrest, have taken to the streets of Minnesota’s biggest city to demand justice.
Trump’s two tweets about the protestors are shocking, but it’s the second one, in which he says he’ll send the National Guard to attack “thugs” that prompted Twitter to take action. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Trump tweeted in the early hours of May 29.