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George Floyd's brother says Trump 'kept pushing me off' during phone call
Source: The Guardian
George Floyd’s brother says Trump ‘kept pushing me off’ during phone call
Philonise Floyd says president dismissed him during a phone conversation – he ‘didn’t give me a chance to even speak’
Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Sun 31 May 2020 14.35 BST
Last modified on Sun 31 May 2020 16.34 BST
At the White House on Friday, Donald Trump said he had spoken to the family of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African American man who was killed during an arrest by police officers in Minneapolis this week.
“I just expressed my sorrow,” Trump said, adding “that was a horrible thing to witness” and saying it “looked like there was no excuse” for Floyd’s death.
But according to Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, the conversation did not go well, as he said Trump gave him little chance to express his views and appeared to have no interest in what he was trying to say.
“He didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak,” Floyd told MSNBC on Saturday. “It was hard. I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept, like, pushing me off, like ‘I don’t want to hear what you’re talking about.’
“And I just told him, I want justice. I said that I couldn’t believe that they committed a modern-day lynching in broad daylight.”
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Philonise Floyd says president dismissed him during a phone conversation – he ‘didn’t give me a chance to even speak’
Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Sun 31 May 2020 14.35 BST
Last modified on Sun 31 May 2020 16.34 BST
At the White House on Friday, Donald Trump said he had spoken to the family of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African American man who was killed during an arrest by police officers in Minneapolis this week.
“I just expressed my sorrow,” Trump said, adding “that was a horrible thing to witness” and saying it “looked like there was no excuse” for Floyd’s death.
But according to Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, the conversation did not go well, as he said Trump gave him little chance to express his views and appeared to have no interest in what he was trying to say.
“He didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak,” Floyd told MSNBC on Saturday. “It was hard. I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept, like, pushing me off, like ‘I don’t want to hear what you’re talking about.’
“And I just told him, I want justice. I said that I couldn’t believe that they committed a modern-day lynching in broad daylight.”
-snip-
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd-brother-philonise-floyd-trump-phone-call
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