WTF. How do they not see this as wildly inappropriate in the best of times?
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The name in the middle is Merrick Garland.
For that move alone it is my fervent hope Mitch McConnell will be remembered in the history books as the Majority Leader most destructive to the process/working of the "world's most deliberative body". He is deserving of nothing more than scorn.
Not a fan of protests outside homes irrespective of how much I disagree with the politician.
The reelection campaign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday decried the actions of protesters outside his Louisville home over the weekend as “serious calls to violence” and said it had notified law enforcement.
A group of 20 to 30 people gathered outside McConnell’s home on Sunday night, with some voicing threats and shouting profanities during a protest that was broadcast on Facebook Live, according to an account in the New York Post.
The reelection campaign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday decried the actions of protesters outside his Louisville home over the weekend as “serious calls to violence” and said it had notified law enforcement.
A group of 20 to 30 people gathered outside McConnell’s home on Sunday night, with some voicing threats and shouting profanities during a protest that was broadcast on Facebook Live, according to an account in the New York Post.
This bothers me too mainly because a lot of the time the people doing it are not genuine concerned voters.
They are those same anarchist types that have infiltrated many a peaceful protest so they can get their angst out and break some property up.
The politician's have offices for a reason do your talking there and peacefully much like the majority have done over the last couple years to various folk.
It veers far too close to intimidation territory to me - “we know where you and your family live”.
Defo this and it certainly doesnt help. It also helps the rights narrative that democrats are angry and violent folk
And it's things like this that drive me crazy, b/c it gives the GOP ammunition to play whataboutism and lets them "prove" the liberals are terrible people bent on destructing society.
We need to be better than this, and not fight down in the muck with Trump and his ilk
Well, officers. This was incredibly boneheaded in the current environment
In a statement Monday, Galveston Police Chief Vernon Hale apologized to the man, Donald Neely, 43, for “this unnecessary embarrassment,” saying the officers “showed poor judgement” in not waiting for transport.
“The image stirred a visceral reaction on social media, even receiving attention from Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman,” reported the Houston Chronicle.
“A black man, dragged with a rope by police officers on horses, in 2019,” O’Rourke tweeted. “This moment demands accountability, justice, and honestly—because we need to call this out for what it is: racism at work.”
In his statement Hale said the department’s policy has been changed so that the previously approved technique for handling prisoners would not be used again.
That wasn’t enough for civil rights groups.
“The photo of Galveston police officers leading an African American man down the street with a rope attached to his handcuffs is disturbing and offensive,” said Gail Glasser, interim director of the Anti-Defamation League’s southwest division, adding that while Hale apologized, “the department’s actions have fallen short.”
Some critics called for the officers to be disciplined.
Leon Phillips, president of the Galveston Coalition for Justice, called “the optics of the photo … shocking,” according to the Chronicle.
“All I know is that these are two white police officers on horseback with a black man walking him down the street with a rope tied to the handcuffs, and that doesn’t make sense, period,” Phillips said. “And I do understand this — if it was a white man, I guarantee it wouldn’t have happened.”
In a statement Monday, Galveston Police Chief Vernon Hale apologized to the man, Donald Neely, 43, for “this unnecessary embarrassment,” saying the officers “showed poor judgement” in not waiting for transport.
“The image stirred a visceral reaction on social media, even receiving attention from Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman,” reported the Houston Chronicle.
“A black man, dragged with a rope by police officers on horses, in 2019,” O’Rourke tweeted. “This moment demands accountability, justice, and honestly—because we need to call this out for what it is: racism at work.”
In his statement Hale said the department’s policy has been changed so that the previously approved technique for handling prisoners would not be used again.
That wasn’t enough for civil rights groups.
“The photo of Galveston police officers leading an African American man down the street with a rope attached to his handcuffs is disturbing and offensive,” said Gail Glasser, interim director of the Anti-Defamation League’s southwest division, adding that while Hale apologized, “the department’s actions have fallen short.”
Some critics called for the officers to be disciplined.
Leon Phillips, president of the Galveston Coalition for Justice, called “the optics of the photo … shocking,” according to the Chronicle.
“All I know is that these are two white police officers on horseback with a black man walking him down the street with a rope tied to the handcuffs, and that doesn’t make sense, period,” Phillips said. “And I do understand this — if it was a white man, I guarantee it wouldn’t have happened.”
I’m sure that will be a great comfort to Heather Heyer’s parents, Pittsburg Tree of Life synagogue attendees and the town of El Paso.
Reject the notion all you like, Senator. At some point the reality might set in for you... this is indeed the Republican Party of today and you are far less likely to change it from within than by leaving it, exposing it and defeating it. Only then can the GOP possibly be re-cast as the party "you once knew".
It's certainly news to the FBI and all law enforcement in the country, which recognizes white supremacist/nationalist hate crime is dramatically increased in the last few years.
Can’t believe the FBI mate, they are the “deep state trying to undermine the President” - unless they are discussing Muslim terrorists or drugs coming into the country when they are heroic patriots.
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