{"id":460100,"date":"2021-04-27T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460100"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:20:32","slug":"4-democrats-who-have-sort-of-spoken-out-against-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-democrats-who-have-sort-of-spoken-out-against-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Democrats Who Have (Sort Of ) Spoken Out Against Riots"},"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\">22<\/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%2F4-democrats-who-have-sort-of-spoken-out-against-riots%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=460100&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-974.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Over the past two years, as far Left riots and violent protests have consumed much of America, leaders in the Democrat Party have been largely silent on the matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the summer of 2020, Joe Biden \u2014 then the Democratic presidential nominee \u2014 did not condemn violent rioting until five nights after demonstrations swept the nation, as admitted by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2020\/08\/13\/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests\/3317862001\/\"><span>USA Today<\/span><\/a><span> fact check.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other top Democrats have egged on the rioters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most recently, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) appeared to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/19\/politics\/maxine-waters-derek-chauvin-trial\/index.html\"><span>encourage<\/span><\/a><span> Americans to riot if Derek Chauvin was not declared guilty: \u201cWe\u2019re looking for a guilty verdict and we\u2019re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd\u2026 We got to stay on the street. And we\u2019ve got to get more active, we\u2019ve got to get more confrontational. We\u2019ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There have been some Democrats, however, who condemned rioting in reaction to perceived racial injustice \u2014 albeit with varying degrees of conviction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here are four examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keisha Lance Bottoms<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In an impassioned May 29 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BVs8JXqLPs8\"><span>speech<\/span><\/a><span>, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D-GA) demanded that rioters in her city cease their violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. This is chaos,\u201d she said. \u201cA protest has purpose. When Dr. King was assassinated, we didn\u2019t do this to our city. So if you love this city \u2014 this city that has had a legacy of black mayors and black police chiefs and people who care about this city, where more than 50 percent of the business owners in metro Atlanta are minority business owners \u2014 if you care about this city, then go home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bottoms then slammed the rioters for being driven by depravity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou\u2019re not honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re not protesting anything running out with brown liquor in your hands and breaking windows in this city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cT.I. and Killer Mike own half the Westside,\u201d Bottoms pointed out. \u201cSo when you burn down this city, you\u2019re burning down our community!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is not the legacy of civil rights in America. This is chaos, and we\u2019re buying into it,\u201d she concluded. \u201cGo home!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Val Demings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) broke with her party\u2019s narrative by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/val-demings-goes-to-bat-for-officer-in-makhia-bryant-shooting-it-appears-he-responded-as-he-was-trained-to-do\"><span>commending<\/span><\/a><span> the officer who shot Ma\u2019Khia Bryant for responding \u201cas he was trained to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen I served as a police chief, what I prayed for daily was that my police officers would respond as they are trained to do,\u201d remarked Demings \u2014 who led the Orlando Police Department from 2007 to 2011 \u2014 on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLook, I worked as a social worker with foster care children so it\u2019s a sad moment for me. But I also was a patrol officer who was out there in the street having to make those split-second decisions,\u201d she continued. \u201cNow everyone has the benefit of slowing the video down and seizing the perfect moment. The officer on the street does not have that ability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Acknowledging that \u201cthose split-second decisions\u201d are tough, Demings said that from \u201cthe limited information that I know and [in] viewing the video, it appears the officer responded as he was trained to do, with the main thought of preventing a tragedy and a loss of life of a person who was about to be assaulted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Demings has also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-rep-val-demings-on-face-the-nation-august-30-2020\/\"><span>spoken<\/span><\/a><span> against riots, instead favoring peaceful protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though she condemned President Trump for encouraging \u201cchaos and disorder and lawlessness,\u201d she said in August that protesters \u201chave the right to demonstrate, but we are a nation of laws.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t condemn people who are obeying the law because of those who do not obey the law,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can do both and we have done both in this America, and that\u2019s what we need to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jim Clyburn<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In an interview in early June, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) condemned political violence in response to George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s bring it back to the demonstrations,\u201d said Jonathan Capehart of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/washington-post-live\/2020\/06\/03\/transcript-race-america-conversation-with-house-majority-whip-rep-james-clyburn\/\"><span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cAs anyone who knows you knows, you are a product and a child of the civil rights movement from the 1950s and 1960s. What is your reaction, what is your message to those who are usurping this movement that we see now to commit acts of violence and looting?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clyburn noted that during his work in the civil rights movement alongside John Lewis, he and his allies suffered because \u201cthere was a group of people who exploited the movement\u201d and \u201cthere was a group of people who hijacked the movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd when you have these kinds of activities going on, everybody that gets involved ain\u2019t necessarily there with the real purpose,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a purpose when we go out to protest. But then there are people who will use that as sort of a shell for cover to do other things. And so, we have to be very careful in this movement, especially with social media all around us, because so much of what we say and do gets weaponized against us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPeaceful protest is our game. Violence is their game. Purposeful protest is our game. This looting and rioting, that\u2019s their game. We cannot allow ourselves to play their game,\u201d Clyburn added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo, I say to young people all the time, we should stand together in solidarity for that which we know to be the purpose for our existence, and that is to make a better country, a better world for those who must come after us,\u201d he continued. \u201cBreaking out a window will not contribute to that. Setting a fire, throwing stones at police officers, that\u2019s destructive behavior which will not contribute to anything that will make this a better country and make a better future for our children and our grandchildren.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite his strong initial condemnation of violence, Clyburn also echoed the words of Rep. Waters during the trial of Derek Chauvin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat I\u2019m saying to people today, we have got to stand up now. And if I might use this word that my colleague Maxine Waters was chastised for, we have to confront injustice. That\u2019s what we gotta do,\u201d he told Jim Acosta of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/house-majority-whip-jim-clyburn-joins-maxine-waters-urging-protesters-confrontational-1586227\"><span>CNN<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Acosta asked whether he was saying to \u201cbe confrontational,\u201d and Clyburn answered in the affirmative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Murphy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In August, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took a stand against rioting before quickly backtracking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis isn\u2019t hard. Vigilantism is bad. Police officers shooting black people in the back is bad. Looting and property damage is bad,\u201d Murphy tweeted in late August, as reported by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-struggling-address-riots-deleted-tweet\"><span>Fox News<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to choose. You can be against it all. You can just be for peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Murphy, however, deleted his tweet only a few hours after its publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t normally delete tweets, but just got rid of one that mistakenly gave the impression that I thought there was an equivalency between property crime and murder,\u201d he said in a second post. \u201cOf course I don\u2019t think that. So I just took it down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two years, as far Left riots and violent protests have consumed much of America, leaders in the Democrat Party have been largely silent on the matter.\u00a0In the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276855,"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-974.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 Democrats Who Have (Sort Of ) Spoken Out Against Riots","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460100","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-974.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 Democrats Who Have (Sort Of ) Spoken Out Against Riots","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460100","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=460100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}