‘We’re coming to get you out of the White Home’: NBA champion sends warning to Trump amid George Floyd protests

Former basketball star Stephen Jackson promised US President Donald Trump that he won’t be re-elected this fall as protests towards police brutality hit all the states and obtain help from abroad.

“I’m making you a promise, you’ll not be within the White Home come November. You’ll not be reelected, I’m telling you now,” Jackson, who gained an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003, mentioned in a video posted on Instagram.

“We’re coming to get you out of the White Home,” he mentioned.

Jackson earlier instructed the media that he grew to become a detailed pal of George Floyd years in the past as they each grew up in Texas. The protests over his demise in police custody have unfold throughout the US and have made their approach to international locations world wide.

A lot of the rallies and marches have been peaceable. Nonetheless, they’ve typically been adopted by rioting and looting in a number of main US cities. The wave of violence prompted state and native authorities to name within the Nationwide Guard and impose curfews. 

Protests befell outdoors the White Home as properly, the place police used tear gasoline and flash bangs to push the group away.

Trump condemned the demise of Floyd as a “grave tragedy” and voiced help for the peaceable protesters. On the identical time, he harshly criticized the “mobs” committing violence, looting, and vandalism.

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