(Twitter via AP) This image from the Twitter account of President Donald Trump shows a tweet he posted on Friday, May 29, 2020, after protesters in Minneapolis torched a police station, capping three days of violent protests over the death of George Floyd, who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck. The tweet drew a warning from Twitter for Trump's rhetoric, with the social media giant saying he had “violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.”
George has been an editorial writer, columnist and blogger for The Tribune's Opinion Section since 2002 (with a four-year diversion to do the same things for The Buffalo News in Buffalo, N.Y.).