"Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse issued a statement on Tuesday morning criticizing President Trump’s visit to St. John’s Church Monday night as a “photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop."
"“There is no right to riot, no right to destroy others’ property, and no right to throw rocks at police. But there is a fundamental — a Constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop,” Sasse said. “Every public servant in America should be lowering the temperature and that means saying two basic truths over and over:
"(1) police injustice — like the evil murder of George Floyd — is repugnant and merits peaceful protest aimed at change;
"(2) riots are abhorrent acts of violence that hurt the innocent.
Say both things loudly and repeatedly, as Americans work to end the violence and injustice.”"
