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In an outrage that is hard to overstate, President Donald Trump
overnight threatened to deploy the U.S. National Guard with
shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed people in Minneapolis—even as the
city reels and protests continue in response to the death of George
Floyd earlier this week at the hands of city police officers.

Instead of urging calm and healing—some kind of unity statement or
acknowledgment of pain and righteous grievance—the U.S. president
threatened violence against his own people. And not only violence, but
an unlawful threat of summary execution.

"Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with
him all the way," Trump declared in a 1:00 am tweet. "Any difficulty and
we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting
starts. Thank you!"

This is authoritarian madness.

Covering the president is an exhausting and often heartbreaking affair,
but Common Dreams is dedicated to making sure that such noxious and
dangerous behavior from the man now sitting in the world's most powerful
office is not ignored or sugarcoated.

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George Floyd—and justified anger against the broader crimes of corporate
looting, state violence, social neglect, and pervasive injustice
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