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Trump's tweet about rioters echoes 1960s Miami police chief

by Associated Press
| May 30, 2020 12:03 AM

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump's tweeted warning Friday amid unrest in Minneapolis that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” echoes the language of a Miami police chief in 1967 who made clear his distaste for civil rights activists and his belief that violent protests should be met with deadly force.

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