Posted on 01/17/2021 11:50:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that he was looking at charging President Donald Trump and others who spoke at the rally proceeding the deadly riots at Capital Hill on “inciting violence” charges.
Anchor Ali Velshi said, “You are considering bringing charges, that’s what the reporting is, against people for inciting this riot.”
Racine replied, “The reporting is accurate. The office of attorney general has jurisdiction over a number of potential offenses, including weapons, ammunition, curfew violations, and the one that’s gotten the most attention, of course, is the inciting violence charge. We’ve brought that charge before. It is law in D.C. since 2011. It makes illegal the statements of individuals that clearly encourage, cajole, and otherwise, you know, get people motivated to commit violence. We’ll balance the First Amendment rights of speakers versus this law and will be judicious with whether to charge and who to charge but every single person at that rally is being reviewed.”
He continued, “If one is talking about combat justice in a crowd that is all amped up and really focused on taking over a particular building, like the Capitol. I think it gets closer to that line. When folks are talking about fighting, fighting, fighting, I think it gets closer to that line. Ultimately, we’re going to have to do a thorough investigation, which is under way, including, I must say, talking to people who were at that rally, talking to people who indeed stormed the Capitol and went inside.”
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The Haitian immigrant alien speaks
Projecting is a Leftist bad habit.
Straight out of banana republic playbook.
Steal an election and then arrezt those who complain.
Better include “Unapproved Time Travel” and “Antifa Coordination” in those charges against Trump.
Interestingly, what flag is that on his lapel? DC?
Review away, jackass.
As if endlessly chanting “Selected, Not Elected” in 2000 had no impact.
I wonder if they ever investigated Abbie Hoffman during the 60s.
Antifa/BLM started the whole PLANNED RIOT.
Everyone KNOWS THIS now.
Alibaba the freak needs to investigate PELOSI.
Then IMPEACH PELOSI, MCCONNELL and JOEOBAMA
Anyone who speaks about the lie of “systemic racism” should be brought up on the same charges.
Same goes for the lie of “russian collusion”.
Total PR stunt for the radicals. Even an idiot like this had to read Brandenburg v. Ohio in Constitutional Law class.
Good luck with that cause once he’s charged and he issues discovery it won’t be hard for this case to be thrown out of court
I wonder if they ever investigated Abbie Hoffman during the 60s.
Anyone who incites illegal immigrants to come to the USA and kill, rape, steal and bring drugs should be investigated.
And the lefties are still advertising their riots on Twitter...
there were plenty of antifa inciting violence- yet even when they go out and do the actual violence they incited, they are let go without charges-
will this fella investigate maxine waters for inciting violence too?
IMO < this is a federal government matter.
The D. of C. should keep hands off and let the federal
government handle it.
Would it have been appropriate for the D. of C. to start
investigating Hillary and Company for their treachery
related to federal law?
Nah...
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