Al Sharpton accuses Trump of ‘trying to make Black Lives Matter look like “hoodlums and thugs”‘ Danielle Cinone Sep 4 2020,
The police shooting of Jacob Blake prompted Black Lives Matter protesters to continue
Democratic presidential candidate Biden and Trump separately visited violence-plagued Kenosha this week in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake last month.
The shooting on August 23 prompted Black Lives Matter protesters to continue demonstrations across the country.
Sharpton slammed the president for "projecting those that are violent" and said "he tries to act like Black Lives Matter and Antifa is the same thing.”
Antifa is the left-wing political protest movement that gained prominence after the white supremacist Unite the Right rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
The Black Lives Matter movement is the civil rights group that came about in response to extreme police brutality.
"We had this big March on Saturday, tens of thousands of people, not one arrest, no violence, all of the families there, you didn’t hear one tweet from the president,” Sharpton said on MSNBC.
“[Trump] never mentioned it. Because he cannot afford to deal with it when he can’t make you look like hoodlums and thugs.
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