“President Trump: For 4 years, we’ve had to live with you and your racist attacks on black people.  We learned early about your sexist attitudes towards women.  We’ve had to endure clips of you mocking a disabled man.

We’ve had to listen to your anti-democratic attacks on journalists.

We’ve read your tweets slamming private citizens to the point of receiving death threats.

And now you’re attacking Democratic mayors and the very institutions of democracy that have served this nation well since its founding.

Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence? 

It’s YOU who have created the hate and the division.

The Tweets that you have been putting out in the last 48 hours, attacking Democratic mayors, attacking those who are trying to bring resolution to the violence in their local communities.

You have an opportunity to uplift us and to bring us together to help us move through this difficult situation in our nation’s history, and, instead, you choose to play petty politics and to divide us.

That’s my reaction

So, I’m gonna do the work that I need to do here in my local community with my local officials, to take accountability for what is happeningi on our streets, and I’d appreciate that either the president support us or that you stay the hell out of the way.