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The conservative pushback to the public outcry over George Floyd’s killing Online Cigarettes Store USA arguably began on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News commentary show.
As early as May 30, Carlson was unusual in focusing on violent incidents during protests in Minneapolis, setting him apart even among right-wing pundits like talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and fellow Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, who at that point were lamenting Floyd’s death.
By Monday night, just over an hour after federal law enforcement officers charged mostly Newport Cigarettes Shop peaceful protesters and pushed them out of Lafayette Park, followed by President Trump’s photo-op in front of St. John’s church, Carlson unleashed a furious tirade.
“Politicians on both sides tell us that this is all about the death of a man in police custody in Minneapolis last week, the people burning down our country are protesters, they're engaged in a legitimate protest, ” Carlson said. “OK, what exactly are those protesters' demands? What are they asking for? If Congress agreed to enact their program, what would the program be? ”
Carlson spent much of his monologue cataloguing violent incidents in numerous U. S. cities that Newport 100s Box seemed to many to be close to spiraling out of control. Attorney General William Barr on Sunday morning called the previous Sunday “the most violent day in Washington in 30 years, ” a reference back to the Mount Pleasant riots of 1991.