The second time a policeman killed George Floyd by police was killed, with damage between President Trump and the top U.S. military leaders.
Mr. Trump did not make public reasons when the sudden dismissal of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Charles Q. Brown, who was cleared at the Pentagon on Friday night. In fact, the four-star fighter pilot has 40 years of service, one of the president's highest priorities when the border tends to be fired.
But Trump advisers privately pointed out that General Brown recorded a video on an angry day by George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police in May 2020, a behavior that triggered a video of the video. Social Justice Movement. In the four-minute video, General Brown reflects on his experience as an African-American pilot in the Air Force.
Mr. Floyd's killing also blew up the relationship between Mr. Trump and General Brown's predecessor General Mark Miley.
A few days after Mr. Floyd's death, General Miley took a photo after dressed in an army fatigued manner, after accompanying Mr. Trump on a walk in Lafayette Square near the White House, after actively clearing out peaceful demonstrations. General Millie has been widely criticized for allowing Mr. Trump to drag into politics.
General Miley apologized publicly, saying, “I shouldn't have been there.”
Mr. Trump was angry. “Why do you do this?” he asked General Miley according to Trump's officials at the time.
The two are already inconsistent with Mr. Trump’s desire to use the Uprising Act to deploy active-duty military personnel to curb protesters, a move that General Millie and Defense Secretary Mark Esper strongly opposed.
Mr. Trump will never trust any man again.
The president later fired Mr. Esper (via tweet). As for General Miley, Mr. Trump finally suggested that he should be executed.
After Mr. Trump regained power, their portraits were taken from the Pentagon walls.
It is unclear whether General Brown will be like him as the United Emirates for a year and four months. Mr. Trump has not publicly criticized General Brown, who has tried to replace another fighter pilot, Dan Caine, with retired three-star lieutenant.
Mr. Trump’s new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has questioned whether General Brown was elected as the United Emirates because he was black and said in a podcast in November that it should be due to military diversity efforts And fired.
Mr. Heggs wrote in his 2024 War Warrior War: “Is this because of his skin color? Or is his skill? We will never know, but always doubt – this seems unfair to CQ, But since he made the racing car one of his biggest phone cards, it doesn't matter.”
General Brown provided electrical power for military-level and archives on June 4, 2020, when he was the Pacific Air Force commander, and he released his four-minute video, which he called “What I’m thinking.”
On the streets of some cities, protests on black life things are kneeling on Mr. Floyd's neck, who is handcuffed and dying, and he kneels on Floyd's neck. Mr. De's neck was angry at Mr. Floyd's killing.
General Brown later said in an interview that one of his two sons asked him, “What do the Pacific Air Force say?” As the commander of the Pacific Air Force, General Brown said he knew it was “Dad, what do you want to say.” ? ” password.
Against the dark background, the stately General Brown, exhausted, stared at the camera and said: Want to know my opinion on the current events of George Floyd's tragic death,” General Brown began. That's what I'm thinking. ”
General Brown talks about his life as an African-American fighter pilot in clear words.
He said: “I am considering the emotions I am with George Floyd, but the emotions of many African Americans who have the same fate as George Floyd, not only To George Floyd, “I am considering protesting your protest in my country, a sweet place for freedom, and in our constitution that declares independence, I swear to support and defend my Adult life.”
General Brown talked about “living in two worlds, having his own perspective and perspective.” “He described the way the world looked to him. He said he and his sister were the only black kids in his elementary school and they tried to adapt. In high school, half of the students were black and they were still trying to adapt.
“I’m thinking about my Air Force career, and I’m often the only African American in my squadron, or as a senior official, the only African American in the room,” he said.
At that time, about 43% of the 1.3 million men and women of color were people of color, but almost all those who made key decisions at the top were white and male. In a photo taken in October of the previous year, Mr. Trump is surrounded by his sea of top four-star generals, a white-faced sea, and is a portrait of the top commander who led the originally diverse institutions.
General Brown continued in his video: “I’m considering wearing the same flight suit, my breasts are the same as my peers and then being questioned by another soldier, ‘Are you a pilot?’’
He limits his words to his own experiences and reflects on another world in which he lives, the Black. “I’m considering captaining the O Club with my squadron and being told by other African Americans that I’m not dark enough because I spend more time in the squadron than I’ve been with them.”
He talked about how most mentors were related to his experience as a black man. He talks about whether pilots who have not had similar experiences “don’t look at racism as a problem because it won’t happen to them, or whether they sympathize.”
General Brown talks about his view of weight as the first African-American nominated for Air Force Chief. Mr. Trump nominated him for the position based on Mr. Esper's advice.
General Brown will continue to vote 83-11 to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff led by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The Pentagon was led by Bayden Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III for the first time in its history.
But in Mr. Trump's eyes, a Trump adviser said Saturday that General Brown did not come back after making the video.
After Mr. Trump took office on January 20, General Brown insisted that he would make the president's legal orders in words similar to his predecessor General Millie.
He was fired anyway. Lisa Franchetti was the first woman to lead the Navy, while Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff General James Slife urged pilots to consider following Floyd's death Institutional racism.
Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University, said: “In his own words, the president and secretary of state said that these leaders serve the country and faithfully enforce the assignments to them by political leaders.” The mission.” The military has been doing for decades. “The sudden action put a lot of questions in the air.”
