Prime Minister ScottMorrisonMP and President realDonaldTrump discussed the ongoing violent riots and protests across the US in a phone call on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and President Donald Trump discussed the ongoing violent riots and protests across the US in a phone call on Tuesday.
Sky News understands the when the prime minister spoke to President Trump he was unaware of a brutal police attack on an Australian news team at an anti-racist rally where crowds were forcibly moved away from the White House. Foreign Minister Marise Payne will be in contact with Australian Ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos who will in turn contact local police to investigate the incident.
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Trump says he won't involve the US military in riots just yetAfter putting the US military on standby for the Governor of Minnesota, Donald Trump now says he won't send the military out to intervene in the riots over the death of George Floyd 'for now'.
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We can’t pretend President Trump is ‘personally responsible’ for violent riots: Murray | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says as another day passes with more violence spreading in the US the “further we get away from the entire reason why these riots took place”.\n\n\nPolice and protesters are facing off in another night of unrest in the United States as violent demonstrations continue to erupt over the death of George Floyd. \n\nMr Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he told them 'I can't breathe'. \n\n“You can’t pretend looting shops has anything to do with police brutality,” Mr Murray said.\n\n“You can’t pretend Donald Trump is personally or even tangentially responsible for what happened here”.\n\nMr Murray pointed to President Trump’s announcement of classifying Antifa as a terrorist organisation, and said there is now a “particularly nasty strain of extremists who are starting to get involved ginning up these crowds”.\n\nImage: AP\n
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US national leadership has ‘stoked the inner red neck’ of the American people | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian Financial Review’s Aaron Patrick says the “national leadership” in the United States has not helped and need to “share some of the blame” for the riots occurring across the country in response to the death of George Floyd.\n\nMr Floyd was an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes as he told them 'I can't breathe'. \n\nAt least two others have now died in the nationwide protests that have sparked looting, building fires and dozens of arrests.\n\nMr Patrick said the national leadership including President Donald Trump have “in a way stoked the inner red neck of the American people”.\n\nDaily Telegraph Columnist Miranda Devine told Sky News host Sharri Markson what started as “reasonable protests” about police brutality has been “hijacked … by people from other places, from antifa, these professional agitators”.\n\nShe said the violent protests have “nothing to do with the death of this man” but in actual fact have “everything to do with people who are anarchists who want to destroy” the US.\n\nImage: AP
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Donald Trump says the US will label Antifa a 'terrorist organisation'US President Donald Trump says the US government will designate anti-fascist group Antifa as a terrorist organisation, a move that legal experts say would be hard to execute.
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US protests 'hijacked' by violent 'anachists' | Sky News AustraliaLiberal MP Dave Sharma has called on United States citizens to “cool it a little and just engage in peaceful protests” as the US experienced a fifth night in a row of violent protests over the death of George Floyd.\n\nViolent demonstrations have broken out across the country following the death of unarmed black man, George Floyd, who was killed by police. \n\nMr Sharma told Sky News the death of Mr Floyd was a “was a shocking and sickening act” and the officers involved should be held responsible, but the protests were now “out of hand”. \n\n“What started off as legitimate and thoughtful peaceful protests have either been seized or hijacked by certain elements that are turning into looting and property damage,” he said. \n\n“This doesn’t reflect well on the United States and it doesn’t reflect well on the citizens involved in it.\n\n“There seem to be these anarchists world-wide who want to jump on any grievance and exploit it to sort of attack the state, attack the institutions of states – there’s certainly an element of that here.” \n\nImage: AP\n\n\n\n \n
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