Republican Utah Senator Mitt Romney joined Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington D.C. on Sunday as a rebuke to police brutality. Romney has been critical of the police-involved killing of George Floyd.
“No Americans should fear enmity and harm from those sworn to protect us. The death of George Floyd must not be in vain: Our shock and outrage must grow into collective determination to extinguish forever such racist abuse,” Romney said on Twitter 3 days after Floyd was killed.
Romney has encouraged peaceful protests and condemned riots saying, “violence drowns the message of the protestors and mocks the principles of justice.”
It’s been almost unanimous amongst democrats and republicans that Floyd was wrongly killed by police and deserves justice, but few republicans have stepped out of the Capitol and protested in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Romney, a rival of President Trump, did just that over the weekend posting photos of his march on Twitter. Romney also declared this weekend along with former President George W. Bush that he would not support Trump’s re-election this year.
The day before he joined the protests, the former 2012 Presidential Candidate posted a photo of his father, George Romney, who protested alongside Civil Rights leaders in Detroit in the late 1960s.
