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Gavin Newsom clarifies calling train thieves ‘gangs’: 'Forgive me ... They're organized groups'
Fox news ^ | 01/22/2021 | Brie Stimson

Posted on 01/22/2022 7:58:09 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

California Gov. Gavin Newsom clarified this week that when he called criminals accused of stealing packages from cargo trains in the state "gangs of people" he wasn’t implying the thefts were gang-related.

This is not one-off," Newsom said in a news conference near Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Los Angeles on Thursday, according to the Washington Times. "This is organized theft. These are organized gangs of people that are coming out."

"Forgive me for saying ‘gangs,’ that’s not a pejorative," he clarified. "They’re organized groups of folks that move from site to site."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; bnsf; california; euphemisms; forgive; gangs; gangsters; gavinnewsom; kamalaharris; liberalagenda; losangeles; nancypelosi; newsom; organized; organizedgroups; railroads; railways; theft; trainrobbery; unionpacific; waronterror
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not a gang, it’s a club.


61 posted on 01/22/2022 9:03:53 AM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gangs like the Mexican cartel illegals aliens who have made califas their domain?! Next you will hear about dead bodies being found burned and decapitated in LA streets, female bodies found completely torn apart in trunks...etc. This is how the cartels have managed to become a power source in the Mexican government. They are scared CHITless over those cartel gangs in the Mexican government. They rule the officials ..... And any official that steps out of line the cartel kingpins will order the assassination of their WHOLE entire family! That’s why POS was quick to apologize to the gang members....incredible! He just gave them legitimacy and the OK to continue their rampant crime spree! Californians are in for a world of hurt! They will not stop at just robbing trains they’ll take the next step banks, million dollar homes etc. maybe they’ll hit, if we’re lucky, Pelosi’s estate. That’ll wake them up.


62 posted on 01/22/2022 9:17:36 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WTF?

Is he afraid of offending a key voting constituency?


63 posted on 01/22/2022 9:22:39 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Democrat” is a pejorative.
64 posted on 01/22/2022 9:28:46 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberals LOVE playing with words.... never mind facts


65 posted on 01/22/2022 9:42:43 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh, and they are pulling heists, thefts or stealing… they are holding organized seminars on overcoming train security to obtain essential resources for their personal survival.


66 posted on 01/22/2022 9:43:16 AM PST by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
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To: BenLurkin

If gruesome would take the time to look up “gang” in the dictionary, one of the definitions is this:

an organized group of criminals

And I don’t think the added word organized makes any difference in the definition as he is implying. I guess since he’s governor of a state, he can use the language any way he wants. Even if it makes him seem STUPID.

WY69


67 posted on 01/22/2022 9:52:19 AM PST by whitney69
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Would not surprise me to see Newsom as Kamala’s VP.


68 posted on 01/22/2022 9:56:02 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: ptsal

He know it means blacks. The videos showed almost exclusively black mobs looting the train cars. But of course we all have to pretend we didn’t see what we saw.


69 posted on 01/22/2022 10:12:05 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Skywise

“Yeah - an organized group IS a “gang””

I’m not keeping up with this. Do the thefts appear to be done by organized groups? Are there pictures of the theiving?


70 posted on 01/22/2022 10:52:17 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Year of Appeasing Dangerously”

a new novel of the Wild Wild West by Gabbin` Nuisance

A new movie by producer Gabbin` Nuisance now playing at your local theatre if you can find one open,

“The Great train Robbery”,


71 posted on 01/22/2022 11:03:38 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: bunkerhill7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jrB5ANUUY


72 posted on 01/22/2022 11:06:30 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This guy simply doesn’t have the tools to be a leader.


73 posted on 01/22/2022 11:08:59 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Newsome insults “folks” in apologizing to Gangs!

What an a$$hole! At least he didn’t call them “black folks,” or “Hispanic folks!”


74 posted on 01/22/2022 12:27:58 PM PST by BatGuano (Fauci = Mengele (Angel of Death) + End the IRS)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

They’re feelings were really hurt..until the cleared that up.
I hope the criminals can get past this..?


75 posted on 01/22/2022 12:32:23 PM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Last Dakotan

Exactly!


76 posted on 01/22/2022 1:29:24 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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