Sweet water cannon
Coming for to carry theys home"
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.
We've been hearing non-stop for decades about the "plight" of the negroes ... and for all the blather and drivel all we have accomplished is to produce a population of angry, violent, idiotic wards of the state who threaten to burn their own neighborhoods if we get smart and cut off their gravy train. If the negroes want "justice, equality, and humanity" they need to get off their collective ass and EARN those things.
BLM, Antifa, etc. last 2 elections start insurrection, rioting, looting, arson and pillaging every summer. They all need to be thrown in jail the minute it starts. AND democrat leaders instigate it. They need to be prosecuted for their incitement starting NOW.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thanks for demonstrating precisely why the bill was needed.
They sure do record some nice music.
It is so easy to blame your problems on others.
Criminals indeed it’s their base law is the last thing the want but they train easily to socialism.
As along as the gravy train runs all is fine.
That’s the classic face of exactly what’s wrong with America.....
Putting them in a position of power is basically suicide ....
Scott Adams is right and The Bell Curve is truth...
Let’s put it this way. Reconstruction was never completed properly. We are still paying dearly for the Civil War.
they did it with floyd
Don’t forget “white man’s electricity and white man’s flush toilets”.
She’s a grandstanding nut. No one here in TN pay any attention to her.
Cry Harder!!
If they riot, fire at will until they stop rioting.
If there are riots from this...
Find her. End her.
Problem solved.
Does anyone really think this is going to end PEACEFULLY?
Demonstrations, protests... fine & dandy, if peaceful.
Rioters, looters arsonists GET SHOT ON SIGHT.
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