Rep. Maxine Waters thanked Democrats for stalling Republicans’ censorship efforts, urging them to be “more confrontational” with the police if Derek Chauvin was acquitted – especially lawbreakers of “too much racism.” Representing districts with ”
Waters (D-California) commented while speaking MSNBC’s “The Read Out” Tuesday evening after being asked about the controversy over his comments over the weekend in Minneapolis.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee said, “Of course, I am criticized all the time, and of course, Republicans target me, but as you know, I am passionate on these issues.”
“I’m so sorry that this causes pain with my coworkers,” she continued. “Many times they are in these districts where they are intimidated, where they have too much racism, where they have not gone to the point that they can have a decent conversation about these issues and sometimes it is their Is very difficult for me. “
The 82-year-old congressman appeared to be referring to Democratic lawmakers, representing conservative or swing districts, many of whom reacted positively to the initial tenets of the racial justice movement that began after the George Justice assassination, but sour after the protest Done, turned into some riots.
Despite their “racism-ridden” districts, Waters said, those House Democrats “stood by me today” followed by Republicans “who censored me because of my visit to Minneapolis.”
“My co-workers stood by me, and they voted to table the motion I had to stop because Republicans like to use me as a target,” she continued, turning her attention to the GOP.
“They raise money on my back,” he said, quoting the party at the time of the fundraising, saying, “This is Maxine Waters, the black woman who is at the very top, and who is whom We cannot control. You’ve got to make sure that I have enough money to save him from being re-elected. ”
“And I’m getting re-elected, and these poor people, many of them retired, keep giving them their money.” They don’t understand that they are not going to remove me from office, “said the California Democrat, who represents the dark blue Los Angeles area. “I’m here until I decide to retire.”
Waters then took the Rev. Drs. Martin Luther King Jr. defended the comments landing in hot water, acknowledging the “confrontation” in his civil rights efforts.
“Many people see that as being bad, and they try to convert my words about violence into something. It is not about violence. Martin Luther King was about non-violence. I am non-violent. Conflicts were used in civil rights legislation, sit-ins for marches, prayers. This is all confrontation. “
The Republican effort to stop Waters in the House on Tuesday on the party line vote 216–210 failed.
On Sunday, the Waters Brooklyn Center, Min. Hundreds of protesters join in, demonstrating against the fatal shooting of Dighton Wright, a 20-year-old black man shot by a white police officer who thought he was driving out his tusser.
The suspect, former officer Kim Potter, has since been charged with second-degree murder.
The city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota were already on the sidelines in the wake of the Chuwin trial and several nights of rioting.
The California jurist told the crowd what was the seventh night of the demonstrations after Wright’s assassination, “We’ve got to live on the streets, and we’ve got to ask for justice.”
“We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” he continued, referring to Chauvin. “And we are looking to see what happened to George Floyd, what happened after that and what is happening.” If nothing happens, we know that we not only have to live in the street, but we have to fight for justice. “
Waters said she was “hopeful” that Chauvin would be convicted, and if we didn’t [get the verdict], We cannot go away.
Asked if this meant the convict of murder would be sentenced, but the murder conviction would suffice, Waters said no.
“Oh no, no Manslotters, no no,” she commented. “He is guilty of murder. I don’t know if it was in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s a first-degree murder. “
What should protesters do if they did not get the decision they wanted, Waters said, “We got to stay on the road. And the more active we have become, the more confrontation we have got to achieve. We’ve got to make sure they know that we mean business.
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