Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms recently implied President Trump was to blame for the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, saying his rhetoric gives racists “permission” to kill blacks in this country.
The mayor’s comments, made on CNN’s “State of the Union,” came only days after a white father and son were charged with the murder of Arbery who had been running through a Georgia neighborhood.
Bottoms said, “This was a lynching of an African-American man. My heart goes out to the family.” She added, “With the rhetoric we hear coming out of the White House, many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way we wouldn’t see in 2020.”
Other civil rights leaders around the country have made comparisons between Arbery’s death and the Jim Crow lynching of Emmett Till and other black men during the 1950s and 60s in the South.
The two white males charged reported to police they suspected Arbery was the same person caught on a security camera breaking into unoccupied houses. They rode vigilante style in their trucks down the neighborhood street with rifles displayed looking for the B&E suspect. When they saw Arbery running, they engaged him and ultimately shot him when he defended himself against the men with guns surrounding him.
When asked about the racial aspect of the case President Trump said his heart breaks for Arbery’s family.
Watch the video as Ben Shapiro shows how the media doesn’t want us all “to be on the same side” during this case or anything else.
