April 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters has called on Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists to take to the streets and become “more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is not convicted of murder, eliciting a far more muted response from Democrats and the mainstream media who spent months accusing former President Donald Trump of inciting violence.
Chauvin is standing trial for his alleged role in the 2020 death of Minneapolis man George Floyd during an arrest, which sparked a wave of BLM violence and protests across the United States. His defense argues that he used appropriate force for the situation, and that Floyd’s death was actually due to a lethal quantity of fentanyl in his system.
“Oh no, not manslaughter. This is guilty for murder. I don’t know whether it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s in the first degree,” Waters told a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota this weekend, the Media Research Center reports (Chauvin has been charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter; prosecutors did not seek a first-degree murder charge).
If he isn’t convicted by the jury, the California
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