One of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement said one of its goals is the removal of President Trump from office.
“Trump not only needs to not be in office in November, but he should resign now,” Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday. “Trump needs to be out of office. He is not fit for office. And so, what we are going to push for is a move to get Trump out.”
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She continued, “While we’re also going to continue to push and pressure Vice President Joe Biden around his policies and relationship to policing and criminalization. That’s going to be important. But our goal is to get Trump out now.”
President “Trump not only needs to not be in office in November but he should resign now,” says co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Patrisse Cullors. “Trump needs to be out of office. He is not fit for office.” pic.twitter.com/T6mLZ11cEv
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 19, 2020
Cullors has been a vocal face of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25, and she has expressed support for the push to defund police departments across the country.
“The demand of defunding law enforcement becomes a central demand in how we actually get real accountability and justice,” she said earlier this month. “Because it means we are reducing the ability of law enforcement to have resources that harm our communities.”
Cullors also criticized police officers who have knelt in solidarity with protesters, calling it “disingenuous.”
“[Police officers] taking a knee is not stopping the deaths of our community members,” she argued. “We need transformation. These things don’t happen through police taking a knee at protests and then, right after they take a knee, getting up and tear-gassing us and rubber-bulleting us and beating us with batons.”
Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has been surging as of late, as donations have poured in from high-profile donors and polling shows support for the message has doubled since 2016.
