“Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who
are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have
been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted Friday. “It will be a
much different scene.”
Any
protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to
Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New
York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene.
The president’s tweet comes
after Tulsa Mayor
G.T. Bynum, a Republican, declared a civil emergency and announced a curfew
near the arena where Trump plans to hold a campaign rally on Saturday.
Bynum, in his order, said “in the interest of national
security,” he would establish a “federal exclusion zone” in the vicinity of the
rally.
Bynum cited recent “civil unrest,” expected “crowds in excess of
100,000” in the vicinity of the rally and opposition protests in his
decision to place a federal exclusion zone for a six-block radius near the
arena.
The mayor specifically warned that he has “received information
from the Tulsa Police Department and other law enforcement agencies that shows
that individuals from organized groups who have been involved in destructive
and violent behavior in other States are planning to travel to the City of
Tulsa for the purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally.”
As part of our preparations for President Trump’s Rally this Saturday, we are working on making the area secure for everyone’s safety.
As posted earlier, the area illustrated in this map will need to be free of vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
As part of our preparations for President Trump’s Rally this Saturday, we are working on making the area secure for everyone’s safety.
As posted earlier, the area illustrated in this map will need to be free of vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
Due to the threat and related
factors, Bynum imposed a curfew in the vicinof the rally from late
Thursday night to 6 a.m. on Saturday — the day of the rally — and from the
conclusion of the rally Saturday night until 6 a.m. on SundaThe curfew
prohibits people from “walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon
any alley, street, highway, public property, sidewalk, or vacant premises”
within the vicinity covered by the curfew.The order also prohibits the
“manufacture, transfer, use, possession or transportation of a Molotov
cocktail” or any other device “designed to explode” in the city, and prohibits
the use of gasoline or any flammable explosive liquids “except in connection
with the normal operations of motor vehicles.”
The emergency order comes after nationwide protests initially
escalated into violent riots in many cities in response to the death of
Minneapolis man George Floyd in police custody last month. Those protests have
largely been peaceful in recent weeks, however.
Meanwhile, the BOK Center asked the Trump campaign for a
written plan outlining how it will incorporate social distancing and other
"health and safety" steps, citing an uptick in coronavirus
cases. The arena, which can hold up to 20,000 people, had Trump supporters lining
up outside for days ahead of the rally.
According to the Trump
campaign, more than 1 million people have registered online for the
first-come-first-serve rally. Those supporters were required to sign
a waiver releasing the Trump campaign from responsibility for
possible exposure to the coronavirus.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale on Friday said that the rally
is "a much different rally," noting that the arena will have "an
outer perimeter fence that allows a much larger amount of people to come."
"People
on the internet are like, the arena is only 20,000," Parscale said on
"Fox & Friends" Friday. "Well, this is more of a
festival-like -- much more looking almost like a convention."
He added: "Tens of thousands of people will be able to be
in attendance and we're going to have multiple places where the president can
speak."
Trump on Friday boasted that
people already were showing up -- though crowds reportedly were being moved due to the
curfew order.
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