Cornell Brooks, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, told 'All Things Considered' that Derek Chauvin, the police officer who knelt on Floyd's neck — should be blamed for protests, too. Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Saturday that the chaos was caused by"
." Attorney General William Barr echoed his sentiment, saying that violence has been"planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics."But former NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks, who is now a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School where he runs a civil rights clinic, toldthat Derek Chauvin — the police officer who knelt on Floyd's neck — should be blamed for the violent protests, too.
"In these marches and demonstrations, there are anarchists and white supremacists and others who show up to sow chaos, sow anarchy and plant the seeds of violence. That's real," Brooks said."But be clear: There would be no protests, there would be no demonstrations, had Derek Chauvin not killed George Floyd. And so ... Mr. Chauvin has provided the matches for the arsons [and] the inspiration for the looting that we are all enduring at this moment.
Rioters may have burned Minneapolis & Atlanta—but matches were supplied by Derek Chauvin & Donald Trump. Who supplied or lit matches won’t matter to a Black mother who loses her child to a fire or bullet.
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