CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Prtizker criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the
death of George Floyd at his daily briefing on Friday, calling the president a “racist, misogynist, homophobe.”
“His tweets, his reaction, his failure to address the racism that exists in America, his stoking of the flames [of white supremacy] in subtle and not-so-subtle ways is completely unacceptable. It’s reprehensible, in fact,” Pritzker said.
“I cannot imagine the rage and the fear that must be felt by a black American watching what happened to George Floyd,” he continued.
Pritzker said, “Even when so many of us have a feeling of ‘it’s time for major change,’ somehow, for black America, it never really comes.”