A top State Department official is resigning from her post over President Donald Trump’s response to the surge of protests against racial injustice and police brutality across the nation, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Reached for comment, a State Department spokesperson told CNN, « We do not comment on personnel matters. »
Taylor’s resignation comes as Trump continues to lean into his forceful approach to the ongoing demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. The gruesome video of Floyd’s killing while in Minneapolis police custody has prompted the kind of soul searching about the role of police in society and systemic racism that many advocates have urged for decades.
But Trump’s efforts to address the demonstrations have, in many ways, garnered criticism and sown division.
