US President Donald Trump said he had been in touch with the family of George Floyd – a Minneapolis man killed in police custody – but urged for an end to “lawless anarchy” and rioting sparked by his death.
“We can’t allow [protests in Minneapolis] to descend further into lawless anarchy and chaos,” Trump said at a White House event on Friday, adding that “looters” should not be allowed to “drown out peaceful protesters.”
The president also noted that he’d spoken with the Floyd family, who he called “terrific people,” on the heels of two days of intense protests and rioting across Minnesota’s Twin Cities. “I didn’t like what I saw at all. I thought it was a terrible thing, a terrible picture,” Trump said of the unrest.
