"When George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, the nation's immediate reaction was one of horror. That included Republican commentators, who expressed their shock at the slow murder of Floyd by suffocation, agreeing his treatment was both brutal and excessive. President Donald Trump called Floyd's killing "sickening" and "revolting." There were stray voices who immediately blamed Floyd for his own murder-a preview of the position the MAGA commentariat would eventually adopt-but at least in the beginning, Republicans in power reacted to a heinous murder caught on camera with disapproval."
"To the president, though, weighing in a few hours later, it was "horrible" for another reason. "The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense," he wrote on Truth Social. "The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis.""
When George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, the nation's immediate reaction was one of horror. Republican commentators expressed shock at the slow murder by suffocation and agreed the treatment was brutal and excessive. President Donald Trump called Floyd's killing "sickening" and "revolting." Five and a half years later, videos circulated of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer repeatedly shooting a woman in her car. The president claimed the woman was a professional agitator who ran over an ICE agent and was disorderly. Video evidence shows the car was turning away when the officer fired multiple shots and the woman did not run over an agent.
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