Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday tweeted a photo of his father in a civil rights protest in the 1960s in Grosse Pointe with text suggesting he disagrees with President Trump's law-and-order response to the anti-police brutality demonstrations.
Romney's dad, George Romney, was governor of Michigan from 1963-69.
This is my father, George Romney, participating in a Civil Rights march in the Detroit suburbs during the late 1960s—“Force alone will not eliminate riots,” he said. “We must eliminate the problems from which they stem.” pic.twitter.com/SzrcAyfPD8
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) June 6, 2020
Trump has chided governors for not being forceful enough in combating violence during protests. Earlier in the week, law enforcement used smoke canisters and rubber bullets to disperse peaceful protesters so he could pose in front of a church near the White House while holding a Bible.
The civil rights march in the 1960s with George Romney came at a time when Grosse Pointe discriminated against blacks and Jews and blocked them from living there.