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Pelosi defends ‘confront’ cops call, Waters accuses GOP of sending ‘message to white supremacists’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defended Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) call for protesters to “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in the killing of George Floyd — as Waters ramped up the rhetoric, accusing Republicans of sending “a message to white supremacists.”
Waters has come under fire for her inflammatory rhetoric during her trip to Minnesota amid the trial, with GOP lawmakers accusing her of inciting violence and calling on her to apologize.
Pelosi argued that Waters’ remarks were justified.
“I myself think we should take our lead from the George Floyd family,” Pelosi told reporters on Monday.
”They’ve handled this with great dignity, and no ambiguity or lack of — misinterpretation by the other side. No, I don’t think she should apologize.”
While in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on Saturday night Waters called on protesters to “stay in the street and demand justice.”
“We’re looking for a guilty verdict and we’re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd. If nothing does not happen, then we know that we got to not only stay in the street, but we have got to fight for justice,” she said, according to videos posted to social media,” she said.
“We got to stay on the street. And we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”
On Monday Waters defended herself amid the criticism, and fanned the flames some more.
“I am nonviolent,” she told The Grio, arguing that she was not inciting violence with her words.
”Republicans will jump on any word, any line and try to make it fit their message and their cause for denouncing us and denying us, basically calling us violent — any time they see an opportunity to seize on a word, so they do it and they send a message to all of the white supremacists, the KKK, the Oath Keepers, the [Proud] Boys and all of that, how this is a time for [Republicans] to raise money on [Democrats’] backs.”
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) on Monday accused Democrats of being hypocritical for not condemning Waters’ comments, stating in a House floor speech that a drive-by shooting happened shortly after she made them.
“Once again this weekend we saw a member of the majority openly call for more confrontation in a Minneapolis suburb. That very night, there was a drive-by shooting in that community were police in the national guardsmen were targeted. If this were reversed, If this was said by a Republican, you know, Madam Speaker, that the majority in this chamber would move to strip that representative of their, of their committees, and possibly move to expel them from Congress — we’ve actually seen this before,” McClain said in her speech.
“If that was President Trump, and he said that on Jan. 6 — was inciting a riot — do the words get more confrontational? What do those words mean? Are those not the words of someone that someone would use if they wanted to incite more violence, or and insurrection?”
Pelosi, instead of rebuking Waters for the harsh rhetoric said McClain should apologize for insinuating Waters held any responsibility for the violence.
“That woman on the floor should be apologizing for what she said” Pelosi said.
“I don’t know [who McClain is] but she was attributing some murder– some incident that happened after that to Maxine’s statement. No, Maxine talked about confrontation in the manner of the Civil Rights movement.”
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/pelosi-defends-waters-call-to-confront-cops/
