Two days later, President Donald Trump singled out those whom he held responsible for the wave of violence and arson that swept through dozens of large cities in the country in the wake of Floyd’s killing ...
One person who is not impressed by these statements is Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “I think that burning down the police station in Minneapolis was a righteous thing to do,” he tells Haaretz in a phone conversation.
It was a facility that facilitated the killing of Black people, and the police as an institution are a racist institution, so burning down their police stations is a good thing to do, to stop them from killing Black people and brutalizing poor and homeless people.
The 38-year-old professor is the person who is perhaps most identified with the activists of the radical left-wing movement antifa – short for antifascist.
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