However, the White House staff leader said riots and violence were happening in Democrat-led cities and states.
“These are other people who, each and every night, provoke acts of violence, and that’s in Democratic cities,” Meadows said in NBC’s “Meet The Press.””Most of Donald Trump’s America is peaceful.”
SCENE OF PORTLAND PROTESTERS SITTING IN THE MAYOR’S HOUSE, AFTER HE AND TRUMP TREATED THE BEARDS
He added: “This is a Democrat-led city in Portland that we’re talking about this morning, which backed down by rejecting federal assistance.”
Portland has been the scene of late-night protests for more than 3 months since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, as Minneapolis sought to stop him. Many end in vandalism and violence, and many protesters have been arrested through local and federal police since last May.
It is unclear whether Saturday’s shooting related to the clashes that erupted when a caravan of about six hundred cars confronted protesters in the city centre.
Police said the caravan left the domain around 8:30 p.m.Officers heard gunshots around 8:46 p.m., according to a statement.The officers arrived at the scene of the shooting “in less than a minute,” police said, but the guy who fired didn’t survive.
1 KILLED IN CLASHES BETWEEN PRO-TRUMP AND BLM GROUPS AS VIOLENCE WAS
But a freelance photographer from The Associated Press heard three shots, then watched police doctors running over the victim’s body, who gave the impression of being a white man., a right-wing organization whose members have clashed with protesters in Portland in the past.
Last week, Republicans continually argued at the Republican conference that Trump is the only status between the country and riots and violence in several cities across the country.
“It took 244 years to build this wonderful nation,” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in a pre-recorded speech at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. on the road taken by Democrats and their radical supporters.
Noem added: “Democrat-led cities across the country are overrun by violent crowds.Violence is endemic. There are looting, chaos, destruction and murder.”
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The Republican conference took a stand in the context of the protests that broke out in Kenosha Wisconsin in reaction to the police shooting of 29-year-old black boy Jacob Blake. Kenosha police said a lot about what happened in addition to responding to a domestic dispute, however, state officials later recovered a knife from the driver’s side of the vehicle.
The Associated Press contributed to the report.