> try to find an actual source of President Trump calling for violence on Twitter. Don't believe everything you read.
On 9:53 PM, 28 May 2020 he said:
> ....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!
That phase isn't random and specific connotation[1].
Yet they didn’t suspend him for the specific example provided.
Also, I don’t think it’s so clear that threatening a defensive act could be called “inciting violence”.
If a group of criminals were parading through a neighborhood performing home invasions, I do not think it’d cross the line to warn them off with a public declaration of “our house has guns and we will protect ourselves”.
Most of the time people would look at from a legal or illegal standpoint
Trumps calls for Law and Order, to use legal remedies to clamp down on disorder in society, ethical or not, would not be considered by most a "Call for Violence"
However calls for protestors to "burn it all down" would be a "call for violence"
//for the record I do not think either should be censored, but I am a free speech absolutist so...
On 9:53 PM, 28 May 2020 he said:
> ....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!
That phase isn't random and specific connotation[1].
[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/twitter-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_s...