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.
The urinal of Tennessee.
All things being equal...she doesn’t look like she could fend off a poodle attack.
When will we see her Pro-Criminal Bill ?
“Gloves off,”
Maybe she needs to actually read Martin Luther King’s words. He never promoted riots. He did promote peaceful protests, but not riots.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Arrest these two “inciters to riot” and let’s se how much rioting they can accomplish. Racist fools!
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!
Weez gon RIOT, ya crackuh ass mofo!
Hilarious
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?!
BTTT
“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.”
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....
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.
A few pew, pew, pew’s should let the rioters know the game is over.
We have reached critical mass on woke rat riots.
“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”]
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