Bob Kroll called Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization” in 2016. In a new email, he said current protests were part of a “terrorist movement.”

Joe Biden on Monday suggested that police forces could train officers to shoot attackers in the legs in order to reduce potential fatalities.There is “the idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person, coming at him with a knife or something, to shoot him in the leg instead of in the heart,” Biden said. “There’s a lot of different things [policies] that can change.”Biden made his remarks while meeting with African American community leaders at the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del. The former vice president was discussing the widespread protests touched off by the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis, Minn.Protests have spread from Minneapolis to major U.S. cities including New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles. The demonstrations have been widely varied in makeup, with some instances of peaceful protests and others that have devolved into riots with widespread looting.Members of Biden’s staff have donated to groups attempting to free jailed rioters on bail. Campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told Reuters that Biden opposes cash bail as the equivalent of a “modern day debtors prison.” It was not clear whether the donations were coordinated by the campaign or made individually.President Trump condemned the donations on Saturday, saying they “would financially support the mayhem that is hurting innocent people and destroying what good people spent their lives building.”

The United States is considering the option of welcoming people from Hong Kong in response to China’s push to impose national security legislation in the former British colony, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in remarks released on Monday. Influential Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell also said on Monday he hoped the Trump administration would soon identify specific ways to “impose costs on Beijing” for curbing freedoms in Hong Kong. McConnell said the United States should mirror the response of other democracies and open its doors to people from the territory.

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has condemned Donald Trump for his failure to control and lead the United States at a time of desperation.On Monday night, President Trump threatened to deploy the US military against protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man who died last week while in police custody. A video of Floyd’s arrest showed a police officer forcing his knee onto the victim’s neck for more than eight minutes, which has prompted a series of peaceful and violent protests across America and numerous clashes between protesters and police authorities.

“People don’t have a baseline of an understanding of what anti-blackness even is,” a Hmong American organizer told NBC Asian America.