TULSA, UNITED STATES (AFP) - Tulsa, Oklahoma imposed a curfew ahead of a campaign rally by US President Donald Trump on Saturday (June 20), blocking roads with barricades amid tensions in a city that was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in US history.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TULSA, UNITED STATES - Tulsa, Oklahoma imposed a curfew ahead of a campaign rally by US President Donald Trump on Saturday , blocking roads with barricades amid tensions in a city that was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in US history.
Barricades went up Friday on the roads around the centre, keeping streets clear of pedestrians and vehicles. On May 31 to June 1 of 1921, a white mob burned down a black Tulsa neighbourhood, Greenwood, killing as many as 300 people and destroying some 1,200 buildings. It also noted that a federal exclusion zone was being established around the Trump rally site"in the interests of national security."
Stephen Corley, 19, said he was concerned about"leftist liberals" and"rioters and protesters protesting Black Lives Matter." Trump had initially picked Friday for his first rally in months, but put it off for a day amid criticism about holding it on the date known as"Juneteenth" which marks the 155th anniversary of the last African American slaves learning of the end of slavery.
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