Trump Threatens to Send Troops to Violence-Torn Minneapolis
- ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts,’ Trump says
- Biden calls on protesters to act ‘peacefully and safely’
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As protests in Minneapolis over the death of a handcuffed African American turned increasingly violent, President Donald Trump threatened to send in armed forces and warned that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
In a pair of early morning tweets on Friday, the president assailed the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, as weak and said he had told Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that “the military is with him all the way.”