Facebook Employees Resign Over Trump’s Post
June 3, 2020
1:12 pm
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has defended himself for not condemning remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump appearing to threaten violent retribution against demonstrators protesting the death of a black man at the hands of police, according to media reported on Tuesday.
In a tweet that was also visible on his Facebook page, Trump slammed demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis as “THUGS” and appeared to promote a violent response by saying, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
That phrase was first used by a Miami police chief in 1967 to justify a violent crackdown on black …
