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 that’s 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 Healey’s 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.
about to say the same. The only racism I have seen for the msot part and the worst racism is from the black community and their crimes on whites.
Also I lived in a all black neighborhood when I first got started and all I got was f off what you doing here, this ain’t your hood etc. This was Mattapan in Boston.
Does she understand it is their Marxist cities burning down whilst their cowwardly thugs are passing on the virus to each other.
We are doing just fine here so go and destroy your commie states and cities up
This is how these people really think....
Obama’s Friend Ayers: Kill 25 Million Americans
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/2455-obamas-friend-ayers-kill-25-million-americans
It’s not an irrational position given their operating assumption about America.
Yet another free GOP election ad.
The left have boxed themselves into a corner. They have to publicly endorse arson and looting or they will annoy an important constituent group.
Whether willingly or unwillingly, liberals have become terrorist sympathizers.
It’s as simple, and horrible, as that.
OK, Karen!
I want to see a forest growing on the ashes of Maura Healey’s house.
Yes. And it’s time we responded accordingly.
“”Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,” Healey said”
No that’s not how forests grow. A forest needs things like sunlight, water and CO2. If external forces block those things the forest won’t grow.
These thugs and the dems are blocking the things needed for America to thrive and grow.
Dear Maura, Tar is pretty healing too. IMO.
The only thing worse than a communist female lib is a communist female lib from MA.
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Yes and blacks are more likely than whites to be involved in violent crime. They represent almost half of violent crime though representing only 13% of the population. The whole narrative is top to bottom fiction. White officers are no more likely to kill in the line of duty than minority ones. The vast majority of killings occur in areas of high incidence of violent crime. The highest incidence of killing of black men occur in cities ran almost exclusively by Democrats with diverse representation on city councils.
She probably lives in a gated community with security guards at the entrance.
I wonder if they all use copies of the same talking points....
[[[Ultimate Karen haircut and expression right there, I tell ya whut.]]]
She also got her stupid pill prescription filled.
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