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Atlanta Mayor Blames Trump For Ahmaud Arbery Killing: He Gives ‘Racists Permission’

Paul Bois
Atlanta Mayor Blames Trump For Ahmaud Arbery Killing: He Gives ‘Racists Permission’
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Even though President Trump called the video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing in Georgia “very disturbing,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Brown blamed the president for the tragic death, alleging he gives racists permission to carry out killings.

Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Bottoms said that the “rhetoric” coming out of the White House enabled two armed white men to set up a roadblock in an attempt to apprehend a young man whom they suspected of burglary.

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