The third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House says that Black people should not be blamed for any violence that has erupted during the summer’s protests following George Floyd’s death.
Majority Whip Jim Clyburn told Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday “that is not who I am, that is not who we are,” of the outbursts that have occurred amid mostly peaceful protests across the country.
Clyburn is the highest-ranking Black member of Congress. He spoke a day after his remarks at the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, where he advocated for former Vice President Joe Biden as a president who could unite the country following what he characterized as four divisive years under President Donald Trump.
Clyburn says the protest efforts were undertaken by those “trying to make this country be a better place for our children and our grandchildren.” He says, “We’re aren’t trying to burn it down — we’re trying to build it up.”
Democrats convene virtually Tuesday for the convention’s second night, with remarks from Jill Biden and former President Bill Clinton.
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Rocks, bottles of urine, bricks, Molotov cocktails…all the tools of the building trade.
Don’t forget, laser pointers to cops (and even helo pilots) eyes, and fireworks tossed at cops to WILLFULLY Injure them.. I am just wondering, HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS must cops endure, BEFORE THEY ARE given the green light to start using LETHAL FORCE BACK!?
“Choking on saliva, the ex-wife of the murdered George Floyd and Jim Clyburn weep, although the last time his wife saw him was 6 years ago. That is when he left her with her three-month-old daughter. He hadn’t sent child support to his daughter over the years. Nonetheless, the unhappy widow has been crying for a weeks that she was “left without a breadwinner” until useful idiot compassionate Americans collected oodles of money for her. She’s received around $20,000,000 from the world & money continues to flow in to the ‘poor grieving’ widow”…., and who knows how rich his grieving Democrat Convention speaker “moment of silence” brother has raked in.
“The great Floyd’s rap sheet listed robberies, drug trafficking, kidnapping, armed robberies (last time holding a pregnant woman by the throat and putting a gun barrel to her belly while demanding money). Then he worked a deal with the prosecutors. Floyd handed over all his accomplices so they reduced his sentence by several years.”
Floyd’s autopsy revealed a variety of drugs in his blood. This is the national hero of America of the 21st century and poster child for riots and anarchy., buried in a golden coffin fit for a President and paid for by emotional Democrat manipulated useful idiots. NOBODY deserved to die like he did, but to make a hero out of failure is to worship at the altar of failure, which in essence makes you a useful idiot of the Democrats like Biden Kingmaker Clyburn.
I would like to call into question the so called MURDER of George Floyd, new details have finally been released. George Floyd had enough Fentanyl in him to kill 3 people, possibly even 4. The number given was 11, overdose and death normally occurs at 3, so he had enough in him to kill 3+ people. New video has also finally been released, it was being hidden by the Attorney General’s Office, in it George Floyd is clearly screaming “I CAN’T BREATH” well before he was even on the ground. These are FACTS, yet a Democrat Attorney General was hiding them claiming he was just trying to make sure he got a conviction, but these facts change the story line. Overdose of Fentanyl causes a person to basically choke to death. We were only shown video of a cop holding him down using his knee and not the entire video from before he was even taken out of his car. No I am okay with Cops putting a knee on his neck, but I am far less okay with being lied to by the Media and Democratic Party about what actually happened. George Floyd was going to die that night from an overdose of Fentanyl, no matter what the cops did to him and that is just fact. This is just another lie that will be repeated over and over again trying to keep the emotions all stirred up. It also calls into question if you can even call this a murder.
SINCE when have these anarchs cared what the facts show??
“NOBODY” deserves to die like he did.”
You are correct, he deserved to die a much longer and more painful death than that. If he got what he deserved, he would still be writhing in pain, much like those currently in hell. Maybe he is getting what he deserves now,
and to me, a JUST punishment for all these anarch and arsonists, would be to be FORCED TO STAND AROUND, and watch as their oWN HOMES got burned down.. Then made to pay to CLEAN IT UP.
I would actually agree that the vast majority of black people are not supportive of the riots, looting, arson, and overall chaos and anarchy that has been co-opted by anarchists and other useful idiots to bring down our government. Most black people just want to raise their family, go to work, get a good education for their kids, and live their life comfortably.
However, when the leaders of the Democratic party refuse to loudly, frequently, and without qualification condemn the actions of these domestic terrorist groups but instead support their agendas (defunding police, reparations, implementing Marxism) then they ARE part of the problem.
He who is silent seems to consent. The Democrat leaders are not only silent but SUPPORTING the chaos and anarchy. When you support it you become the problem as much as the thugs doing the actual destruction.
ANd as to ‘how dare we on the right, Condem the peaceful protesters, when its just the RIOTERS causing a problem..
WELL IF YOU leftists keep saying things like “ALL COPS ARE bad, cause of what a few do, and keep saying ALL WHITES are racist, cause of what a FEW whites did way back in the 1800s, then OF COURSE WE WILL respond in kind, and call ALL protesters part of the problem, when every damn one of their protests SEEM TO ERUPT INTO RIOTS!!”
Some ring of truth to Jimbo Clyburn’s statement here. In Pittsburgh, most of the “peaceful protesters” are sniveling white Liberals. Ya know, the ones who are rioting, smashing windows, burning cop cars, spray painting everything that doesn’t move. Amazing how quick the anarchists and Marxists hijacked that whole movement.
No hijacking occurred.
The Marxist / antifa political terror groups are just tagging along since they know the Dem run local & state govts & the Dems / Repubs in Congress are doing nothing as usual to stop the now common & predictable “race” riots.
Terrorists & criminals of all races know they can get away with rioting, mob violence, assault / murder & mass destruction as long as they are doing it in the company of BLM terrorists & other black activists, militants & criminal thugs who are being legally protected & defended by Dem politicians & their rich Corp / media allies.
BLM didn’t get hyjacked, they LET THEM in..
But, yet Clyburn is on the record for “Repatriations” from people who were in no way connected to slavery for people who were not slaves.
As usuall, the Demorats are crazy.
Clyburn acts as confused & demented as Biden.
He doesn’t seem or want to remember that black people immediately go on a mad rampage to riot, loot & burn every time a black person gets killed by a cop & doesn’t matter to them if cop was right or wrong.
Don’t think I’ve seen news coverage of peaceful protests by any militant black activist groups unless you want to count the ones that have signs & chants calling for the murder of all cops as peaceful.
Guess Clyburn didn’t notice any black people rioting, looting, burning & attacking & beating up on any white people & cops in their vicinity re: the L.A., 1965 & 1972 race riots, the MLK riots, or the more recent Ferguson, Baltimore, NYC, Minneapolis, Seattle & Portland riots.
Someone needs to let Clyburn & all the Dem politicians know we don’t all have selective amnesia & we know exactly which race of people thinks they are legally & morally justified to riot, terrorize, vandalize, destroy, loot, burn & attack or kill citizens & cops whenever they perceive mistreatment, regardless of the evidence proving that every other race has people who have experienced same or worse treatment but they don’t go berserk in the streets creating mass terror & causing millions of $ in damages.
Clyburn is the task master of the plantation.
Another jacka** braying into the noise.
advocated for former Vice President Joe Biden as a president who could unite the country
After the Radicals burn it to the ground.
OoooooKay, we’ll blame his dumb ***!!