Posted on 06/04/2020 10:20:29 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.
"Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow," Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Healey, who is also the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, repeated her remarks in a tweet later the same day, adding that Americans need to "seize the opportunity" to rid the country of "institutionalized racism," which she blamed for the violence.
Maura Healey
Today in my address to the bostonchamber, I spoke about how we must seize the opportunity we have right now to build anew in ways that rid us of the institutionalized racism thats led to America burning today.
Republican Attorneys General Association chairman Jeff Landry called on Healey to renounce her statement shortly after, criticizing her for "inflammatory rhetoric."
"Maura Healeys inflammatory rhetoric is part of the problem, not a solution," Landry said. "An AG is elected to uphold the rule of law and protect life and property, not to violate their oath and incite additional violence by inflaming emotions and condoning lawlessness. AG Healey has an obligation to quell fear, not incite further damage and destruction."
Landry affirmed that all who seek to harm or kill "must be held accountable" during this time.
"The wrongful death of any innocent life is a tragedy. That includes George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, and now the numerous law enforcement officers and business owners who have been killed or assaulted as a result of these riots and domestic terrorism. Criminal elements have infiltrated peaceful protests, and those individuals breaking the law must be held accountable," he said.
Healey's remarks come after a week of protests in cities nationwide sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed as a white police officer pinned him to the ground and refused to let him get back up.
The protests have taken a violent turn by night in many of America's cities. Businesses have been ransacked, cars and homes have been set ablaze, and cultural sites have been defaced.
In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed and the protests began last week, fires consumed cars, businesses, and homes last weekend, and the city's 3rd Precinct headquarters was set ablaze by protesters.
On Sunday night in Washington, D.C., some protesters set the historic St. John's Church on fire, which stands a block from the White House. The fires were doused before any damage was done to the main sanctuary, but the church's nursery was destroyed.
Oust all Seditionists.
That is how America will grow.
Our bull dyke Attorney General will personally see to it.
“Iron doesnt flee but capital does, grocery stores do.”
You have a point. What we’re experiencing is reshaping with some destruction. On the other hand, capital fleeing might force changes that can’t be made by shouting slogans and making promises.
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some (wo)men just want to watch the world burn.
Ive seen that kind of change manifesting as a food desert.
LOL..... you got that right!
[ Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.
“Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,” Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce. ]
Oooh, she lies like Barack Hussein Obama.
OK, the the arsonists can burn her house to the ground so she can grow? Great logic there, lady. Satan approves.
Stalinist thug.
From the Bureau of Justice Statistics: In 2018 there were 549,000 black on white violent crimes in the USA and 59,000 white on black violent crimes.
This is almost a 10 to 1 ratio of more black on white violent crimes than white on black violent crimes.
Thanks for the advice and how sad is the situation you describe.
She’s not real happy about those flags though.
This bitch Healey is also a notorious gun grabber.
True. Inner city neighborhoods need to be rebuilt to resemble prisons for the sake of security.
[ Yep- Burn it all down.
Keep voting Democrat. ]
Some of the idiots will keep doing that, too.
[ The analogy is as vacuous as its author. ]
Well, she IS a Democrat, so..........
And in that forest a Patriot with a gun will rise up behind every tree!
[From the Bureau of Justice Statistics: In 2018 there were 549,000 black on white violent crimes in the USA and 59,000 white on black violent crimes.
This is almost a 10 to 1 ratio of more black on white violent crimes than white on black violent crime]
Paging Al Gore. Paging Al Gore. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
We have An Inconvenient Truth for you here.
And I’m sure the cowardly COC just sat there, afraid to open their mouths
Let’s see if they have the nerve to GTFO that S***hole of a State
With an AG like that and the lack of outcray over her stupidity, I know I’d be out of there PRONTO
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