Twitter flags Trump for “glorifying violence” in “looting starts, shooting starts” tweet

Unrest in Minneapolis meets the president’s ongoing war on social media.

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As protests and sporadic looting rocked Minneapolis Thursday night in the wake of George Floyd’s violent on-camera death at the hands of a police officer, President Donald Trump poured oil on the fire with a pair of tweets suggesting that he was about to dispatch troops to the Twin Cities and shoot looters.