The memorable top example is that of Rep. Maxine Waters, Democrat for California, who in the summer of 2018 suggested that others “absolutely harass” Trump members when viewed in public.
Speaking at MSNBC at the time, the California congressman said management officials who protect Trump “know that what they are doing is wrong” and said they soon could not appear peacefully in public without being harassed.
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“Possibly they couldn’t move into a restaurant, they probably couldn’t avoid it at a gas station, they probably couldn’t buy at a branch,” Waters said.”People pass by to become opposite to them, they’re passing by to protest, they’re passing by to harass them.”
Waters told his supporters at a rally in Los Angeles looking for “history to record that we rise, that we backed off, that we struggled not to see ourselves as victims of this president.”He called on other people to “create a crowd” and “repel.”
Waters’ comments came when key members of the Trump administration were harassed in public amid a controversy over the separation of migrant families.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confronted an angry crowd at a Mexican eating place in Washington and then mocked her doorstep in Virginia.Then White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was also asked to leave a place to eat in Virginia after the co-owner said she “had safe criteria that I think she respects, such as honesty, compassion, and cooperation.”
Waters’ comments, however, generated complaints from current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat.
“In the important months ahead, we’ll have to try to make America charming again,” said Pelosi, then leader of the parliamentary minority, with a link to a story about Waters’ comments.”Trump’s lack of daily courtesy has provoked unforeseeable responses.”
More recently, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Democratic democrat from Massachusetts, called for “street riots” either over racial injustice and Trump and his political allies “turned a deaf ear” to Americans’ concerns, adding those related to the “dismantling” of the U.S. Postal Service.
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“It’s both public protest, organization, mobilization, and pressure enforcement,” Pressley said in MSNBC’s “AM Joy” this month, after mentioning the steps That Democratic lawmakers can take, “so that this GOP-led Senate and those governors who continue to bring water to this administration put Americans at risk put Americans at risk , they turn a deaf ear to the wishes of our families and communities, make them accountable.
“Make phone calls, send emails, introduce yourself,” he continued.”You know, there’s going to have to be riots in the streets as long as there’s a riot in our lives.”
Pressley also over PostMaster Louis DeJoy, whom the Postal Service Board of Governors appointed in May, to resign over “corruption” following the restructuring of the postal service.
Protesters piled up outdoors from DeJoy’s home in mid-August, fearing that adjustments to the postal service would make the postal vote more complicated and deprive the electorate of their rights, WuSA-TV in Washington reported.
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It’s not just Democrats in Congress who have encouraged more active malaise: local officials and even television personalities have been in favor of turmoil in some U.S. cities.
CNN host Chris Cuomo, brother of New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, asked in June why others expect the protests to be “educated and peaceful.”
“Please show me where you say protests should be well educated and peaceful,” he said.”Because I can show you that the outraged citizens are the ones who made the country what it is and that has led to a vital step.honestly, it’s not a quiet moment.”
Cuomo’s comments came when cities across the country saw widespread protests after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in custody through Minneapolis police.
Following the death of black man, Freddie Gray, in 2015 whilst in custody in Baltimore, then-mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake got here under heavy complaint for a remark that ‘she did about giving protesters “who wanted to destroy area to do so.”
“I left it very transparent that I was running with the police and asked them to do everything they could to make sure the protesters simply exercise their right to freedom of expression,” Rawlings-Blake said.
She added: “It’s a very sensitive balancing act because, as we looked to make sure they were from cars and other things that were happening, we also gave those who were looking to destroy the area to do it as well, and we painted it’s very difficult to maintain that balance and put ourselves in the most productive position to disable.”
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After a brutal reaction, Rawlings-Blake to explain his comments and blamed the media for misinterpreting its meaning.
“I didn’t order the police to give space to protesters seeking to create violence or destroy property,” he said.”Taken in context, I explained that by giving nonviolent protesters the opportunity to express their message, unfortunately, those seeking to incite violence also had an area to operate.”
While Democrats have not rushed to criticize their party peers amid the turmoil surrounding Floyd’s death and Jacob Blake’s shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Biden braided about the violence that ravaged Portland over the weekend.the city as a giant caravan of Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets.
“The fatal violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable.Shooting on the streets of one of the major American cities is unacceptable.I condemn this violence unequivocally. I condemn violence of all kinds through anyone, left or right,” Biden said over the weekend.
“And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same.Whether you consider the political prospects of your parties to the conflict abhorrent, any loss of life is a tragedy,” Biden added.”We won’t have to be a country at war with ourselves.A country that accepts the murder of fellow citizens who disagree with you.A country that takes revenge on each other. But this is the America that President Trump needs us to be, the America he believes we are.”
On Monday, Biden challenged Trump again, saying, “A long time ago, this president lost all ethical leadership in this country.She can’t avoid violence, because for years she fostered it.Array… fires are burning and we have a president who is stoking the flames that fight the flames.”
Paul Steinhauser, Nicole Darrah and Brie Stimson of Fox News contributed to the report.