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President Trump blamed “weak leadership” in Washington for the outbreak of rioting and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, six years ago.

Trump, now faced with escalating protests in Minneapolis, was repeatedly critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the Ferguson riots in August 2014 which were in response to the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.

At the time, Trump said other countries were laughing at the government’s handling of the unrest.

The first wave of protests died down within a few weeks, but a second round of Ferguson protests were triggered in November of the same year after a grand jury did not bring charges against the officer who shot and killed Brown.

“Our country is totally fractured and, with our weak leadership in Washington, you can expect Ferguson type riots and looting in other places,” Trump tweeted on November 25, 2014.

 

 

On the same day, he added that the rest of the world would be laughing at the United States and then-President Barack Obama over the rioting in the suburb of St. Louis.

“As China and the rest of the World continue to rip off the U.S. economically, they laugh at us and our president over the riots in Ferguson!” Trump said.

He also tweeted: “Can you imagine what Putin and all of our friends and enemies throughout the world are saying about the U.S. as they watch the Ferguson riot?”

Six years later, Trump finds himself in the Oval Office while protesters set fires to police stations and loot buildings in Minneapolis over the death of another unarmed black man in police custody.

George Floyd died after local police attempted to arrest him on Monday over suspicion that he tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a store.

Footage of the arrest went viral on social media and caused outrage as an officer was shown kneeling on Floy’s neck while he told police that he was struggling to breathe.

 

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