总统唐纳德·特朗普周五，为数月来他在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的第一次竞选集会做准备，周六，威胁任何出现在外面或试图扰乱活动的抗议者，称“这将是一个与他们在“纽约、西雅图或明尼阿波利斯”的遭遇大不相同的场景”
“任何前往俄克拉荷马州的抗议者、无政府主义者、煽动者、抢劫者或下层民众请理解，你们不会像在纽约、西雅图或明尼阿波利斯那样受到对待。这将是一个非常不同的场景!”特朗普周五早上发了推特。
任何前往俄克拉荷马州的抗议者、无政府主义者、煽动者、抢劫者或下层民众请理解，你们不会像在纽约、西雅图或明尼阿波利斯那样受到对待。这将是一个非常不同的场景!
——唐纳德·特朗普(@realDonaldTrump)2020年6月19日
目前尚不清楚特朗普到底是什么意思，也不清楚他能做些什么来实现他的威胁，但在最近几周，他对抗议者采取了越来越敌对的语气，这一次把“抗议者”与“无政府主义者”、“掠夺者”和“下层民众”归为一类
他指责“反法西斯”在没有证据的情况下在抗议中使用暴力，并一再吹嘘明尼阿波利斯的国民警卫队如何像对待“切黄油的刀子”一样对待抗议者
塔尔萨市市长称，从周四晚上开始到周末实行宵禁，理由是担心有组织的团体会来到这个城市。
但是星期五下午宵禁被取消了。
“昨晚，根据塔尔萨警察局局长温德尔·富兰克林的要求，在根据他们收到的情报与美国特勤局协商后，我颁布了宵禁令，”拜纳姆市长在一份声明中说，“今天，我们被告知宵禁不再有必要，所以我要取消它。”
2020年6月18日，在华盛顿白宫的国家餐厅，唐纳德·特朗普总统在与州长举行的关于美国小企业重新开张的圆桌会议上发表讲话。亚历克斯·布兰登/美联社
特朗普的集会最初定于6月19日星期五，也就是众所周知的6月19日，也就是亚伯拉罕·林肯总统签署《解放宣言》两年多后，最后一批仍被奴役的人被告知获得自由的节日。
在一个罕见的例子中，他在压力下退缩，总统在说他和两个黑人特工谈话后，上周宣布他将重新安排第二天的集会。
这座城市也很紧张，因为它是1921年种族屠杀的现场，在那场屠杀中多达300人被杀。
1921年，俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨，塔尔萨种族大屠杀后，一个非洲裔美国人拿着相机看着一个烧毁街区灰烬之上的铁床骨架的照片。俄克拉荷马历史学会/盖蒂图片社
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人们对此次集会的担忧超出了种族范畴，因为该州仍在与冠状病毒作斗争，最近病例有所增加。
2020年6月19日，在俄克拉荷马州的塔尔萨，唐纳德·特朗普总统的支持者在明天集会的地点——博克中心附近排队参加特朗普的竞选集会赢得麦克纳米/盖蒂图像
特朗普在周五的另一条推文中也表示，他认为他在塔尔萨的集会是他连任竞选的重新启动，他说，“塔尔萨已经形成了大量的人群和队伍。我的竞选还没有开始。它从俄克拉荷马州的周六晚上开始!”
集会预计将吸引多达10万名特朗普支持者，其中一些人在集会前几天在塔尔萨有1.9万个席位的俄克拉荷马银行中心外排队。
特朗普本周声称，已有超过100万人索要该活动的门票，他的竞选团队一直在探索可能的场地，以容纳过多的人群。
2020年6月17日，俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨，唐纳德·特朗普总统的支持者在博克中心外扎营，博克中心是他即将举行的集会的地点。劳伦斯·布莱恩特/路透社
俄克拉荷马州的共和党州长凯文·斯蒂特周四在白宫与特朗普会面时支持了这次集会，当时他参加了一个与此无关的活动，活动的重点是政府对小企业的援助。
斯蒂特保证集会将是安全的，即使该市卫生官员称像集会这样的活动是传播冠状病毒的“巨大风险因素”。
“我想，这是一群以前没人见过的人。特朗普说:“我认为，我们对门票的需求非常巨大，这在政治上可能是前所未有的。”他吹嘘自己在大流行期间第一次集会的门票需求，并告诉斯蒂特，他的竞选团队选择俄克拉荷马州的原因之一是因为该州“非常好地应对了大流行”
“我们很高兴有你，”斯蒂特告诉特朗普。“就像你说的，我不知道是否有人抓住了这一点，但是已经有超过100万的人要求门票来参加这个活动，所以这将会非常令人惊讶。”
特朗普的竞选发言人艾琳·佩林(Erin Perrine)告诉美国广播公司新闻，竞选“非常重视集会参加者的健康和安全，并采取预防措施确保集会安全”，包括检查与会者的体温，为他们提供口罩和洗手液。
Trump threatens protesters ahead of Tulsa rally
PresidentDonald Trumpon Friday, gearing up for his first campaign rally in months in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, threatened any protesters who show up outside or try to disrupt the event, saying “it will be a much different scene” than how they've been dealt with in "New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis."
"Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!" Trump tweeted Friday morning.
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)June 19, 2020
It wasn't clear exactly what Trump meant or what he could do to carry out his threat, but he has taken an increasingly hostile tone towards protesters in recent weeks, this time putting “protesters” in same category as “anarchists” “looters” and “lowlifes.”
He has blamed "antifa" for violence at protests, without evidence, and has repeatedly bragged about how the National Guard in Minneapolis dealt with protesters like a "knife cutting butter."
A curfew was imposed beginning Thursday night and into the weekend, according to Tulsa's mayor, citing concerns abut organized groups coming to the city.
But Friday afternoon the curfew was rescinded.
“Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,” Mayor G.T. Bynum said in a statement, “Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.”
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Trump's rally was initially scheduled for Friday, June 19, known as Juneteenth, the holiday marking when the last people who were still enslaved were told they were freed, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
In a rare instance of his backing down under pressure, the president, after saying he spoke with two black Secret Service agents, announced last week that he would reschedule the rally for the next day.
The city also is tense because it's the site of a race massacre in 1921 in which as many as 300 people were killed.
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Concerns of the rally go beyond race, as the state is still battling coronavirus and has seen an recent uptick in cases.
Trump, in another tweet Friday, also said he views his rally in Tulsa as the re-launch of his reelection campaign, saying, "Big crowds and lines already forming in Tulsa. My campaign hasn’t started yet. It starts on Saturday night in Oklahoma!"
The rally is expected to draw as many as 100,000 Trump supporters, some of whom had lined up outside the 19,000-seat Bank of Oklahoma Center in Tulsa, days before the rally.
Trump claimed this week that over a million people had requested tickets for the event and his campaign has been exploring possible venues for an overflow crowd.
Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt backed the rally when he met with Trump at the White House Thursday at an unrelated event focused on government assistance for small businesses.
Stitt assured that the rally would be safe even as the city’s health official has called an event like the rally "a huge risk factor" for spreading the coronavirus.
“It’s a crowd like, I guess, nobody’s seen before. We have tremendous, tremendous requests for tickets, I think, probably has never happened politically before,” Trump said, bragging about the demand for tickets to his first rally amid the ongoing pandemic and telling Stitt one of reasons his campaign chose Oklahoma was because the state has handled the pandemic “incredibly well.”
“We're so excited to have you,” Stitt told Trump. “And like you said, I don't know if people caught that but over a million people have requested tickets to come to come to this event so it's just gonna be amazing.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine told ABC News the campaign "takes the health and safety of rally-goers seriously and is taking precautions to make the rally safe," including checking the temperatures of attendees and providing them with face masks and hand sanitizer.
