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(PETAL, Miss.) — A white Mississippi mayor who introduced on an outrage along with his tweets about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has apologized but says he acquired’t resign.

Petal Mayor Hal Marx told theHattiesburg Americanhis remarks on social media about Floyd’s death, which occurred after a white police officer kneeled on his neck, “were made in haste and never effectively-thought out or expressed.”

“I apologize to of us that found them to be insensitive, and I apologize to the folks of our city,” Marx told the newspaper in an interview Saturday.

Quiet, the mayor said he plans to aid out his time interval that expires in July 2021. On Friday, as a minimal 200 people protested at Metropolis Hall calling for Marx to resign. Petal’s board of aldermen furthermore agreed the mayor have to silent step down.

“Why on this planet would anybody bask in to change into a police officer in our society this day?” Marx tweeted Tuesday, the day four Minneapolis law enforcement officers were fired. Floyd, 46, became handcuffed and pleading for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck Monday.

In a observe-up tweet, the Republican straight away referenced the Floyd case, asserting he “didn’t survey anything unreasonable”: “While you might perchance well voice you might perchance well’t breathe, you’re respiratory. Most seemingly that man died of overdose or heart assault. Video doesn’t recount his resistance that obtained him in that space. Police being crucified.”

Marx told the newspaper that city aldermen and others had wrongly characterised the tweets as racist.

“I didn’t make racist comments,” Marx said, “and I in actuality haven’t mistreated anybody.”

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