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NBC’s Melvin Urges Dem Whitmer to Arrest Michigan Protesters
mrc Newsbusters ^ | 05/05/2020 | Kyle Drennen

Posted on 05/06/2020 8:39:35 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

After initially pointing out that some of Whitmer’s critics felt her policy “violated [their] constitutional rights,” Melvin launched into a rant against the demonstrators and implied a racial double standard in how authorities treated the protests:

"I want to talk to you about these demonstrators that I saw over the weekend in your state capitol, a number of them armed. I remember vividly a few years ago being in Ferguson, Missouri and protestors there, many of them protesting, they weren’t armed, they were referred to as thugs. These men and women, many of them carrying flags, walking around with their guns in your state capitol, not adhering to social distancing orders. They would appear to be in violation of a number of laws. Why weren’t they arrested?"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2020election; blm; cnbc; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; ferguson; gretchenwhitmer; halfwhitmer; mediawingofthednc; michigan; missouri; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; wretchedgretchen
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I'm pretty sure Whitmer, despite saying otherwise, probably would have arrested them if she thought she could get away with it. Her handlers probably advised her against doing so.

Between the election of Trump and this Covid 19, it really is exposing America's enemies within.

1 posted on 05/06/2020 8:39:35 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

You don’t have to give liberal Democrats much rope at all for them to figure out a way to hang themselves with it.


2 posted on 05/06/2020 8:40:45 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Tench_Coxe

When the Michigan protesters start setting fires and looting stores, you get back to us, Melvin.


3 posted on 05/06/2020 8:41:41 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Tench_Coxe

NBC wants a war.


4 posted on 05/06/2020 8:42:39 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Tench_Coxe

NBC wants a war.


5 posted on 05/06/2020 8:42:39 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Looks like it, doesn’t it?


6 posted on 05/06/2020 8:44:58 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I think Melvin could use some Julius Streicher therapy. Streicher held no official position in the Nazi regime but was tried at Nuremberg anyway since the findings of the court determined that the war crimes of the regime would not have been possible without Streicher’s advocacy.


7 posted on 05/06/2020 8:46:46 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Wonder if they’d call for arrests if it was antifa?

They’d be crying tyranny of first amendment, wouldn’t they...


8 posted on 05/06/2020 8:47:32 AM PDT by z3n
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To: A_perfect_lady
"I want to talk to you about these demonstrators that I saw over the weekend in your state capitol, a number of them armed. I remember vividly a few years ago being in Ferguson, Missouri and protestors there, many of them protesting, they weren’t armed, they were referred to as thugs.

Exactly! Hey, Melvin! I didn't see any violence in Michigan as opposed to the THUGS running rampant in Ferguson? Are you deaf, dumb and blind? Ask your galpal Al.


9 posted on 05/06/2020 8:47:32 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Screw journalists.)
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and if anyone tries to accost, arrest, restrain, or otherwise attack us, what result do they anticipate their fascist action may get them? Does she perhaps think we wouldn’t defend ourselves? We are, obviously, Americans. “Live Free or Die!” Death to Fascism! Death!

The governor of Michigan is a great danger to the citizens and MUST BE REMOVED ASAP if we are to live as a free people in a free land.

Further, she should be sent to prison for the damage she’s done to our state, our liberties, and our lives.


10 posted on 05/06/2020 8:49:16 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Those politicians, judges and reporters who advocate vacating the constitution, and, should be aware hanging by the neck is the proper patriotic response.


11 posted on 05/06/2020 8:49:39 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: G Larry

The law of unintended consequences is a bitch


12 posted on 05/06/2020 8:51:04 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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If she orders the cops to arrest them....and they refuse....then she’s got REAL problems.

Don’t think that isn’t weighing in her calculus.


13 posted on 05/06/2020 8:51:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Does Whitmer have enough room for over one million angry freedom fighters in her Lubyanka jails?
14 posted on 05/06/2020 8:52:55 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Unlike the Freddy Gray protesters (rioters) who were just “blowing off some steam.”


15 posted on 05/06/2020 8:54:40 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

1st Amendment. Furthermore, the Constitution is not SUSPENDED just because we are in the midst of a pandemic. The utter audacity of progressive libtards is reaching a tipping point quickly, but yeah, please continue on with the authoritarian and totalitarian heavy-handedness.......you may well get your wish for a “boogaloo.’


16 posted on 05/06/2020 8:55:54 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Tench_Coxe

once again Half Whitmer claims that the demonstrators were carrying Confederate flags, nooses and swastikas. I’ve seen some of the videoes of the demonstration and didn’t see any Confederate flags or nooses. I did see some posters depicting Half Whitmer as Hitler that did have a backwards swastika on them, but that was aimed at her not a swastika flag or anything. Has anyone seen video showing Confederate flags or nooses?


17 posted on 05/06/2020 8:56:44 AM PDT by euram
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To: Tench_Coxe

Between the election of Trump and this Covid 19, it really is exposing America’s enemies within.


I’m curious to know how the recall effort is proceeding.


18 posted on 05/06/2020 8:58:26 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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I suggest Melvin make a citizen arrest. Let’s see how that goes.


19 posted on 05/06/2020 9:02:33 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of the Great King!!!)
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Has anyone seen video showing Confederate flags or nooses?

She is almost certainly simply lying.

She believes if she says it long enough, she will make it true.

20 posted on 05/06/2020 9:04:46 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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