House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in big, big trouble over her recent comments.
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After former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Pelosi thanked Floyd “for sacrificing your life for justice.”
“And thank God, the jury validated what we saw, what we saw,” Pelosi said in front of the U.S. Capitol Building as she delivered remarks with the Congressional Black Caucus.
“So, again, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. For being there to call out to your mom. How heartbreaking was that? To call out to your mom, ‘I can’t breathe,'” she added.
“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,” she abhorrently added.
WATCH:
Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for being murdered pic.twitter.com/na0Fjoj891
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 20, 2021
Her statement was quickly slammed on social media.
Many said it was tone-deaf, argued she should not treat Floyd as a sacrificial lamb, and even called for her to resign.
Holy shit Nancy it's time to retire https://t.co/xvmFhlhQnw
— Joshua (@TheJWittz) April 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1384654964102938624?s=20
https://twitter.com/xoxogossipgita/status/1384624707643793409?s=20
Time to retire https://t.co/pMLgOn4zZB
— Kansas Green Party🌻 (@KSGreenParty) April 21, 2021
The most tone deaf and ignorant thing imaginable. Pelosi does not see George Floyd as a man wrongfully murdered, but as a prop. https://t.co/uQ5ElWaAPe
— James Rhine (@jamesrhine) April 20, 2021
“sacrificing your life for justice…”
oh my https://t.co/XssRWqUEln
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) April 20, 2021
what the hell https://t.co/BOvG9LqMUu
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 20, 2021
Pelosi thanking George Floyd for his "sacrifice" continues the tradition of White people in power seeing us as Black pawns on their ivory chess boards. George Floyd's life mattered before he was murdered.
— Albert Lee (@AlbertLee2020) April 21, 2021
After hearing Nancy Pelosi's comments on George Floyd, my only political opinion is that we should stop electing really old people to office and enforce term limits.
— Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) April 20, 2021
"Thank you George Floyd for dying." https://t.co/tQlAPkni13
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/lenikacruz/status/1384623102412443661?s=20
George Floyd didn't sacrifice his life.
He was murdered by the police. https://t.co/ze8yhgnsPg
— DSA-LA 🌹 (@dsa_losangeles) April 20, 2021
Here’s more from Trending Politics on the verdict in the case involving former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin:
The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. The police officer was charged with murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
The verdict is as follows: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
The verdict comes after numerous high-ranking Democrats expressed their belief that the ‘right’ verdict would be a ‘guilty’ one.
On Saturday, Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters flew to Minnesota and called for mob justice if their radicals did not get the guilty verdict they demanded.
“We are looking for a guilty verdict,” Waters said. “We are looking for a guilty verdict. And we are 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.”
“We have got to not only stay in the street,” she added. “But we have got to fight for justice. But I am very hopeful and I hope that we are going to get a verdict that says ‘guilty, guilty, guilty.’ And if we don’t, then we cannot go away.”
When asked what people “should do” if the mob doesn’t get the justice it demands, Waters responded with a call to escalate the ‘confrontation.’
“We have got to stay on the street,” Waters said. “And we have got to get more active. We have got to get more confrontational. We have got to make sure they know that we mean business.”
On Tuesday, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar increased the pressure by saying the case was “closed” as far as she was concerned.
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Joe Biden also weighed in on the case while the jury was deliberating on Monday afternoon.
“They’re a good family, and they’re calling for peace and tranquility, no matter what that verdict is,” President Biden said. “I’m praying that the verdict is the right verdict, which I think, it’s overwhelming in my view.”
This is as clear a case of jury tampering as it gets.
