US President Donald Trump has never shown particular appreciation for the “Black Lives Matter” movement – and is now complaining about a lettering planned on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week that the street in front of Trump Tower in central Manhattan would be painted with the slogan “Black Lives Matter”. Trump called the similar lettering in front of the White House a “symbol of hatred”.
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He criticized the city for “denigrating the luxury street with a big, expensive, yellow sign” and at the same time reducing the police budget by a billion dollars.
The city council made this decision early Wednesday morning. There should not be any deletion of jobs, the reduction from around six to around five billion dollars is mainly due to changes in administration and work organization. For example, around 5,300 police officers in schools will be the responsibility of the education department in the future.
Racist remarks and criticism of “Black Lives Matter”
Trump claimed in his tweet that de Blasio hated the city’s police force. The police officers would still remember “vividly” songs of abuse against them, the president continued. The calls he cited had already been picked up during protests in Minnesota in 2015.
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Trump had already expressed himself racist several times in the past and also harshly criticized the “Black Lives Matter” movement. In polls, however, a clear majority of the US population supports the major protests against racism and police violence that began after the death of the African American George Floyd.
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