{"id":443697,"date":"2021-04-22T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443697"},"modified":"2021-04-22T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:06:12","slug":"top-dem-defends-pelosi-following-george-floyd-sacrificing-comment-i-realized-what-she-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-dem-defends-pelosi-following-george-floyd-sacrificing-comment-i-realized-what-she-meant\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dem Defends Pelosi Following George Floyd \u2018Sacrificing\u2019 Comment: \u2018I Realized What She Meant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-dem-defends-pelosi-following-george-floyd-sacrificing-comment-i-realized-what-she-meant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3383.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the third-highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday for comments she made earlier this week suggesting that George Floyd sacrificed himself for justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clyburn, who was standing near Pelosi when she made the remarks, told CNN on Thursday that he understood what the speaker was trying to say and chalked up her phrasing to a mere grammar mix-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI realized what she meant,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhipClyburn\/status\/1385225191563874307\">said<\/a> Clyburn.\u00a0\u201cMy goodness. All of us sometimes put the infinitive in the wrong place. It was \u2018for having sacrificed your life,\u2019 rather than \u2018sacrificing.\u2019 She just used the wrong infinitive, and I wish we all had time to consult our grammar books every time we got ready to speak. We don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she meant absolutely nothing by that but exactly what she corrected in her tweet,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cHe did sacrifice his life, maybe against his will, but he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Many people were confused by Pelosi\u2019s remarks because she seemed to be suggesting Floyd died willingly, even though Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pinned down Floyd in the minutes before his death, had just been convicted of second-degree murder for his death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice,\u201d said Pelosi. \u201cFor being there to call out to your mom \u2014 how heartbreaking was that \u2014 call out for your mom, \u2018I can\u2019t breathe.\u2019 But because of you, and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.1566820276498\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Speaker Pelosi at the Congressional Black Caucus presser after Chauvin verdict:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JfapSsKdtX\">pic.twitter.com\/JfapSsKdtX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1384624338683502592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>After the remarks, Pelosi said in a Twitter statement that Floyd should still be alive today \u2014 the speaker\u2019s apparent effort to distance herself from the comments she made about Floyd sacrificing his life for justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGeorge Floyd should be alive today. His family\u2019s calls for justice for his murder were heard around the world. He did not die in vain. We must make sure other families don\u2019t suffer the same racism, violence &#038; pain,\u201d said Pelosi.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.951289398281\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">George Floyd should be alive today. His family\u2019s calls for justice for his murder were heard around the world. He did not die in vain. We must make sure other families don\u2019t suffer the same racism, violence &#038; pain, and we must enact the George Floyd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JusticeInPolicing?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JusticeInPolicing<\/a> Act. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tWln9NRg1g\">https:\/\/t.co\/tWln9NRg1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1384637552133656581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s \u201csacrifice\u201d comments were widely criticized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to imagine Pelosi tried that line out on people around her earlier and they nodded along as if it wasn\u2019t one of the most offensive things they\u2019d ever heard,\u201d tweeted Ryan Grim, Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the Intercept and a contributor to The Young Turks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3971291866029\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You have to imagine Pelosi tried that line out on people around her earlier and they nodded along as if it wasn\u2019t one of the most offensive things they\u2019d ever heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1384672651239739395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cClearly, this is a poorly constructed line. Floyd didn\u2019t want to \u2018sacrifice\u2019 his life,\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/21\/politics\/george-floyd-nancy-pelosi-derek-chauvin\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> editor-at-large Chris Cillizza. \u201cPelosi\u2019s comment seems to bizarrely suggest that Floyd had some choice in the situation, when in actuality he had zero say or control over whether a police stop would end in his death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York Times reporter Astead Wesley wrote: \u201cThank you George Floyd\u2026for being murdered?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.3090909090909\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thank you George Floyd\u2026.for being murdered? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DAT9N60Dxh\">https:\/\/t.co\/DAT9N60Dxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Astead (@AsteadWesley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteadWesley\/status\/1384622964084252686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNancy Pelosi always manages to find a stunning new way to be tone deaf,\u201d tweeted another user.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9300699300699\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nancy Pelosi always manages to find a stunning new way to be tone deaf. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzhYduT6M5\">https:\/\/t.co\/SzhYduT6M5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Selinker (@mikeselinker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeselinker\/status\/1384625102835249157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat the hell,\u201d tweeted Townhall editor Guy Benson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.3\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">what the hell <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOvG9LqMUu\">https:\/\/t.co\/BOvG9LqMUu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1384627061625610244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAn absolutely bizarre statement from Nancy Pelosi about a man murdered by law enforcement,\u201d said Timmothy Burke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7639751552795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An absolutely bizarre statement from Nancy Pelosi about a man murdered by law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LEmFYHpWtW\">pic.twitter.com\/LEmFYHpWtW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bubbaprog\/status\/1384623994658299904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the third-highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday for comments she made earlier this week suggesting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276526,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3383.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Top Dem Defends Pelosi Following George Floyd \u2018Sacrificing\u2019 Comment: \u2018I Realized What She Meant\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3383.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Top Dem Defends Pelosi Following George Floyd \u2018Sacrificing\u2019 Comment: \u2018I Realized What She Meant\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}