Donald Trump will hold his first election rally since the coronavirus lockdown in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday. As thousands of his supporters descend on an indoor sports arena, the event has been widely criticised for risking a new rise in Covid-19 infections as well as stoking racial tensions.
The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland joins Anushka Asthana from Tulsa. Oliver looks back to 1921, where Greenwood, Tulsa was the site of one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history. He discusses why Trump chose to hold his comeback rally in this location. We also hear from Brenda Alford, whose grandfather’s business was burned to the ground in 1921 and Andre Harris, brother of Eric Harris, an unarmed 44-year-old African American man who was shot and killed by a white reserve sheriff’s deputy, Robert Bates in 2015. Harris points out that just as in 1921 when the sheriff’s office conscripted members of a lynch mob to wreak havoc in Greenwood, it was a volunteer white officer that killed his brother.
Clips from: Fox News, CBS 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, KJHR-TV Tulsa Channel 2, HBO, CNN, NBC Today Show, TMJ4 Milwaukee News, ABC News, ABC-15 Phoenix
Photograph: Lawrence Bryant/Reuters
