Posted on 04/26/2021 5:45:29 AM PDT by RandFan
In a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed on Thursday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., vigorously defended her earlier call for protesters to "get more confrontational" if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin hadn't been convicted of killing George Floyd.
Waters, in her Thursday Op-Ed, described how she attended a peaceful rally before the verdict and was asked: "What do we do if we don't get a guilty verdict? What should protesters do?"
She responded: "We got to stay on the street. And we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational."
On Tuesday, Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin, who is white, is to be sentenced on June 16 for killing Floyd with a prolonged hold that involved putting a knee on the Black man's neck. Because of the racial component to the case, longstanding claims of excessive police force against people of color, and a viral video of the extended encounter, the Floyd episode fueled a summer of protests around the world.
Waters, a civil rights activist, drew parallels between the protests before the Chauvin verdict and the Rodney King riots. "I have been an activist participating in the civil rights movement and I have dealt with the issue of police abuse for many decades."
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But Waters, writing for the Los Angeles Times, restated that she was non-violent and blamed opposition groups for twisting her words. "Now, because of who I am, the right wing and members of Congress who subscribe to the views of groups like QAnon, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and the KKK have targeted me."
Waters' encouragement of more confrontational protests drew immediate condemnation from many quarters, and Republican lawmakers even sought, unsuccessfully, to have her censured
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So did Stalin. And Iran.
And Japan said it had no choice but to attack Pearl Harbor because America was going to invade.
So everyone is guilty of misinterpreting what she clearly said? Typical liberal — blame others. They’re never wrong and it can never be their fault.
...and Bruce Gender claims he's a woman!
The world is full of crazy people.
The Birdman of Alcatraz was also non-violent, but he liked to instigate riots. He once instigated a riot that nearly destroyed the prison. While everybody was trashing the prison, he was sitting in his cell, nice and neat, watching the action.
Maxine’s big problem is her stupidity....the ignoramus apparently does not know what “confrontational” means....(/s)
“groups like QAnon, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and the KKK have targeted me”
Hopefully un amigo o una amiga will replace her come January 2022:
Technically she’s correct. She is only using words and like a typical race baiter in office seems content to keep with let’s you and him fight speech.
What she is NOT is peaceable, or: “Inclined or disposed to peace; promoting calm.”
Fugly Marxine the “get in their faces” instigator. 6’ under separation cannot come soon enough.
I was active in local Los Angeles politics in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I met Maxine, Diane Watson (former Dem congresswoman), and other leading Dems and Reps of that time. Maxine is one of the worst people I ever met. Sure, like Mafia dons, she doesn’t do the physical violence herself. She just stokes it and gets other people to do it. She started the ‘no justice, no peace’ thing during the Rodney King situation. It was the first of these ‘we will riot unless we get our way’ incidents that are all too common now.
Mostly peaceful riots is like a mostly romantic date rape.
The b**** will not STFU until some violence comes her way.
Please, oh please.
We have tons of video ans sound bites to prove otherwise Maxine . Is Maxine still living in the days before Radio and TV
Translation: the she-devil doesn’t NEED to be physically violent, she-devil KNOWS that her illiterate speeches will inspire OTHERS to do all the violence for her. And because the jews created “the politically correct minority protected class system”, she-devil will always get away with it, never getting arrested for inciting riots.
Yeah, like Hitler. He never killed anybody; he was only giving orders.
“Maxine’s big problem is her stupidity....the ignoramus apparently does not know what “confrontational” means....(/s)”
Nothing more dangerous than an arrogant idiot.
I can claim I’m supermodel material. That doesn’t make it so.
Many death row inmates hold to their innocence until the plunger is pushed.
It’s people like her that keeps racism alive.
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