We demand Maxine Waters be expelled from Congress for jury intimidation, inciting to riot
The race agitating Fascist from California landed in Minnesota Saturday and demanded a 'guilty' verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial or 'we must get more confrontational'
Crossing state lines Saturday into Minnesota , Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made an appearance and gave remarks that amount to jury intimidation, jury tampering and inciting to riot, all federal offenses. (Photo: Screen Capture/BCP Politics Review)
Opinion/AnalysisIt didn’t take long for someone to heed the recommendations made by Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Hours after she called for more violent protests in Minnesota, Minnesota National Guard and local law enforcement were fired upon.
According to Lt. Col. Scott Hawks, commandant of the Minnesota National Guard, two of his soldiers and a Minneapolis Police riot control team were fired upon by a light colored SUV early Sunday Morning. The incident followed calls by Waters for protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to “‘get more confrontational” in their attacks on police and local businesses, in anticipation of the Derek Chauvin verdict.
The Republican leader in the House of Representatives and a freshman Georgia congresswoman have demanded action against Waters, the Democratic representative, after she told BLM and Antifa supporters that, if a guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial was not delivered, “we have to get more confrontational.”
In other words, either find Derek Chauvin guilty — no matter the evidence — or we will burn down your cities. That’s the implied threat. On Saturday, Waters spoke in Brooklyn Center, the Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by police last week after resisting arrest and attempting to flee. He was found to have an outstanding warrant for attempted aggravated robbery from December 2019..
It does not appear it was mere bad timing the California congresswoman spoke before final arguments on Monday in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer who knelt on the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes last May, allegedly resulting in the Floyd’s death.
“I’m going to fight with all of the people who stand for justice,” said Waters, who is Black. “We’ve got to get justice in this country and we cannot allow these killings to continue. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”
She left little doubt in the inflammatory speech that the “they” she was referring to were the jurors in the Chauvin trial. That is tantamount to jury intimidation, jury tampering and inciting to riot, all charges that many populist conservatives are today demanding Waters face at the federal level, given she crossed state lines to engage in them.
Jurors in the Chauvin trial are daily subjected to intimidation by protestors outside the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, with Maxine Waters throwing gasoline on the fire Saturday in threatening “confrontation” if the verdict is anything but “guilty.” (Photo: Kerem Yucel/Getty Images)
With BLM and Antifa thugs daily gathering outside the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, where the Chauvin trial is taking place, with an obvious intent to intimidate jurors, tensions are already high. For this loud-mouthed no-nothing to throw gasoline on the fire in the city is not just unconscionable and Fascistic, is it patently illegal.
In her most direct threat — one that should have led to her arrest before she even left Minneapolis — Waters said: “I hope we’re going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don’t, we cannot go away.”
On Sunday night House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, said, “Maxine Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis — just as she has incited it in the past. If Speaker Pelosi doesn’t act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week.”
Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) already has taken action. She announced an effort Sunday to expel Waters from Congress after the Minnesota appearance. It a statement released by her office, Taylor Greene accused the California Congresswoman of inciting "Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to fire gunshots at National Guardsmen in Minnesota" after she spoke in Brooklyn Center, which has become a flashpoint for protests following the fatal police shooting of Wright.
"I'll be introducing a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress for her continual incitement of violence," a statement from Taylor Greene's office reads. She went on to say that if President Trump’s words supporting freedom and liberty prior to the January 6 Capitol incident could remotely be construed as “inciting insurrection,” the Waters’ comments “were a cut-and-dried case of jury tampering and inciting to riot.”
Observers said McCarthy’s most likely course of action would be to support Taylor-Greene’s resolution. With a majority in the House that has shrunken to just two seats with the death of Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) April 6, the chances of success are almost even..
To say Waters, 82, is a confrontational figure is a gross understatement. She is nothing less than a racist, Fascist agitator. Waters has been getting away with being incendiary and wandering far away from Congressional decorum for years. With the nickname “Kerosene Maxine,” she has a well-earned reputation. She made headlines last week by screaming across the House Finance Committee dais at Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) after he demanded to know from Dr. Anthony Fauci when Americans “would get their freedom back.”
House Finance Committe Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to “respect the chair and shut your mouth” during his interogation of NIAID Head Anthony Fauci. She has prove time and again she deserves no respect. (Photo: ACV File)
“Shut your mouth,” the angry woman snarled at Jordan. She literally told a lawmaker who wanted to restore liberty to the U.S. to “respect the chair and shut your mouth.”
She regularly clashed with Donald Trump, angering Democratic leaders. In 2018, Waters said people should harass Trump cabinet members and aides in public. Pelosi called the comments “unacceptable”. Senate leader Chuck Schumer went for “not American”.
With Waters’ attitude and buffoonery, she deserves no respect. Taylor-Greene is absolutely correct: Waters should to be stripped of her committee chairmanship and other committee assignments, she should be censured by the House and she should be expelled.
“Speaker Pelosi,” Taylor-Greene tweeted. “You impeached President Trump after you said he incited violence by saying ‘march peacefully’ to the Capitol. So I can expect a ‘yes’ vote from you on my resolution to expel Maxine Waters for inciting violence, riots, and abusing power threatening a jury, right?”
Republicans were right to be stunned and alarmed at Waters’ unhinged comments.
The irony of the possibility of Waters being censured is not lost on Taylor-Greene. In February, Greene lost committee assignments over Twitter posts she made years ago that Fascist Democrats labeled
“conspiracy laden.” Some Democrats wanted to expel Greene from Congress. That is unlikely to succeed. The potential for Waters being expelled is enhanced by the fact so many Democrats are quietly opposed to her ignorant acts of partisanship.
“The Radical Left don’t care if your towns are burning, tweeted Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), “if there’s violence in your streets, or if the police are too defunded to defend their communities. As long as the Left appeases their anti-America base, their job is done.”
Enough is enough. Populist conservatives are fed up with Fascist “wokeness,” the loss of our freedoms and liberties and the fools like Waters who blatantly promote all of it. She should be charged with jury tampering at the least and inciting a riot at the most, and definitely expelled from Congress.