U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft dismissed any analogy between authoritarian regimes and President Trump’s response to the protests following “this awful killing of George Floyd,” voicing support for peaceful protests and condemning China’s hostility to free speech.

“It is brutality, it is intolerable,” Craft said of the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck for several minutes as he died. “We are going to uphold our democracy. We are going to allow people across the country to have peaceful demonstrations and the opportunity to speak freely.”