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Democratic State Senator Warns Republicans of Riots After State Passes Pro-Police Bill
The Tennessee Star ^ | Matthew Giffin | March 15, 2024

Posted on 03/16/2024 7:37:08 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Tennessee State Senator Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville) warned state Republicans on Thursday moments after the Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill prohibiting local governments from inhibiting law enforcement that her Democrat constituents may respond with riots.

@FoxNashville posted footage of the Thursday press conference at which Oliver and other Democrat legislators held at the Capitol in which they announced their disapproval of the bill.

The legislation easily passed in the State Senate on Thursday in a partisan vote 26 to 6. The previous week, the Tennessee House passed the bill in a partisan 68 to 24 vote.

“So yeah, we’re gonna fight,” said Oliver (pictured above), co-founder of a Tennessee-based social justice activist group called the Equity Alliance. “Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard. You [sic] ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our districts [sic] gonna do?”

“Gloves off,” she continued. “Like, we’re gonna fight like hell, you don’t expect us to respond when you gaslight us every single day with these bills?”

She went on to call the legislation a “Jim Crow bill” and the lawmakers who voted for it “Confederates.”

State Senator Brent Taylor, who sponsored the legislation, responded to Oliver’s comments in a thread on X. Taylor lamented the continued opposition from Democrats and said he has had many people in Democrat-represented districts thank him for his work.

At the same presser, State Senator London Lamar (D-Nashville) claimed Tennessee Republicans were engaging in “a form of slavery,” according to more footage posted to X by KWAM.

Lamar claimed that people were being silenced in the General Assembly and equated such behavior with enslavement.

“I feel like a slave sometimes in this building,” Lamar said. “I am tired of [sic] Republican Party expecting us as minorities to do what they want to do but treat us disrespectfully. Nah, we’re not doing that [sic] no more… We’re at the time of the session where [sic] gloves off.”

Lamar in particular was slammed for her comments comparing her service as a state senator to slavery.

“Holy Cow!!” wrote Newsmax host and author Todd Starnes on X. “Are the Republicans forcing you to lift that bale or pick cotton? This is an international story! Who knew that slaves were still working Tennessee’s plantations?”

The bill, SB2572/HB1931, would prohibit local governments from restricting the ability of law enforcement officers to carry out their duties of preventing crime, detecting crime, and apprehending offenders, provided they do so in a legal way. Existing local laws that contradict SB2572/HB1931 would become null and void upon the bill’s passage.

A recently passed Memphis City Council ordinance barring the Memphis Police Department (MPD) from initiating pretextual traffic stops would be affected. The council passed the ordinance in view of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal encounter with five MPD officers during a traffic stop in January 2023.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
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To: Mr. Mojo

21 posted on 03/16/2024 7:54:45 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents into jail.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
What an idiot. She’s pretty much inciting violence with her yapping. In saner days, she’d be removed from office for that at the very least.


22 posted on 03/16/2024 7:56:14 AM PDT by Allegra (Does this tagline make my brain look smaller? Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Русские свиньи, идите домой! Derp)
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To: Paladin2

The urinal of Tennessee.


23 posted on 03/16/2024 7:56:22 AM PDT by Leep (Kill ALL Fakestinians!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

All things being equal...she doesn’t look like she could fend off a poodle attack.


24 posted on 03/16/2024 7:58:46 AM PDT by Leep (Kill ALL Fakestinians!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

When will we see her Pro-Criminal Bill ?


25 posted on 03/16/2024 8:03:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mr. Mojo
You [sic] ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our districts [sic] gonna do?”

“Gloves off,”


26 posted on 03/16/2024 8:06:42 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Fine. Keep the cops out if her district and make sure all her constituents know she's the reason for all the crime.
27 posted on 03/16/2024 8:10:32 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Maybe she needs to actually read Martin Luther King’s words. He never promoted riots. He did promote peaceful protests, but not riots.


28 posted on 03/16/2024 8:13:17 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: Mr. Mojo

This is why we can’t have nice things.


29 posted on 03/16/2024 8:14:51 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Arrest these two “inciters to riot” and let’s se how much rioting they can accomplish. Racist fools!


30 posted on 03/16/2024 8:16:20 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: HYPOCRACY

These two smooth-brained nitwits need to be arrested and charged with sedition. I wonder if they could be deported to Haiti where the society more so fits their mentality. What pathetic losers!


31 posted on 03/16/2024 8:19:09 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Weez gon RIOT, ya crackuh ass mofo!

Hilarious


32 posted on 03/16/2024 8:22:07 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Mr. Mojo
What this Democrat/Communist Party politician says is true. She clearly knows it; the members of the Democrat/Communist Party politburo know it; everyone knows it!

Most all members of the Democrat/Communist Party (cult, or even tribe as you prefer) would consider it racist if a Republican said it ... but it's true no matter who says it. The criminals are restless so we must not agitate them further by arresting and punishing them for their crimes ... and this passes for intellect and wisdom in government.

Is ours a great "modern" society or what?!

33 posted on 03/16/2024 8:25:36 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

BTTT


34 posted on 03/16/2024 8:26:12 AM PDT by nopardons
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“So yeah, we’re gonna fight,” said Oliver, co-founder of a Tennessee-based social justice activist group called the Equity Alliance. “Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard. You [sic] ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our districts [sic] gonna do?”

“Gloves off,” she continued. “Like, we’re gonna fight like hell, you don’t expect us to respond when you gaslight us every single day with these bills?” She went on to call the legislation a “Jim Crow bill” and the lawmakers who voted for it “Confederates.”

State Senator Brent Taylor, who sponsored the legislation, responded to Oliver’s comments in a thread on X. Taylor lamented the continued opposition from Democrats and said he has had many people in Democrat-represented districts thank him for his work.

At the same presser, State Senator London Lamar (D-Nashville) claimed Tennessee Republicans were engaging in “a form of slavery,” posted to X by KWAM. Lamar claimed that people were being silenced in the General Assembly and equated such behavior with enslavement.

“I feel like a slave sometimes in this building,” Lamar said. “I am tired of [sic] Republican Party expecting us as minorities to do what they want to do but treat us disrespectfully. Nah, we’re not doing that [sic] no more… We’re at the time of the session where [sic] gloves off.”

35 posted on 03/16/2024 8:30:13 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: HYPOCRACY

Remove all police, close jails, no courts or judges in a city like Memphis, St Louis, Chicago, Detroit, or LA...

Go back in one year and see what’s left...ROFL....


36 posted on 03/16/2024 8:30:50 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Paladin2

Here in the craft store in Memphis. Just outside President Barbecue is grabbing people at random, burning them alive and eating their flesh.

Look, they just set fire to the shopping center!

Just the voice of the (fiery but mostly peaceful) unheard.

In actuality nobody is talking about this and people don’t seem to care. Here in Memphis if you can’t abort people they’ll just get shot later on.


37 posted on 03/16/2024 8:31:46 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Mr. Mojo

A few pew, pew, pew’s should let the rioters know the game is over.

We have reached critical mass on woke rat riots.


38 posted on 03/16/2024 8:32:55 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Rats, Rinos, Uniparty wins, everyone loses.)
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To: girlangler

“Maybe she needs to actually read Martin Luther King’s words. He never promoted riots. He did promote peaceful protests, but not riots.”

Martin Luther King’s words, some of them:

“Let me say as I’ve always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.” [Martin Luther King Jr., “The Other America”]


39 posted on 03/16/2024 8:36:53 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Mr. Mojo
Yet another insfferable, uppity Fanny Willis/Litigious James wannabee. (Nice earrings.)


40 posted on 03/16/2024 8:39:44 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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