Pandering Pelosi and Schumer: Wearing African Scarves While Kneeling For 8 Minutes And 46 Seconds
(Chaz Anon) – Democratic leaders are desperate to impress their social justice constitutes, so with cameras rolling, they took a knee as well as participating in a moment of silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Monday in honor of George Floyd. They also gave a shout out to the rioters, saying they, “respect the actions of the American people to speak out” against the “consequences” of slavery and racism “specifically manifested in police brutality.”
Pelosi, alongside several other career Democrat politicians that includes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) — took a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the same amount of time officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck.
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“That tragedy, that tragedy, that hour of history … slavery in our own country and then all the consequences of that,” Pelosi began. “We are here to observe that pain. We are here to respect the actions of the American people to speak out against that, specifically manifested in police brutality.”
Pelosi read off a list of names that have been popularized by the media’s promotion of police violence, including Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Freddie Gray, Michel Brown, and Trayvon Martin, while donning Kente cloth scarves, hoping to galvanize the black community to vote for questionable candidate Joe Biden.
The speaker of the house had a difficult time getting up following the moment of silence.
“It’s hard to get up,” she said, reaching for help. “It’s better not to have high heels.”
“That was an eternity,” someone off-camera said.
“You see how long it was to have that knee on his neck,” Pelosi said, seemingly out of breath.
Pelosi furthered her remarks during a subsequent presser, looking around and stating, “My members will attest. It’s a very long time.”
“Today this moment of national anguish is being transformed into a movement of national action as Americans from across the country peacefully protest to demand an end to injustice,” she said, failing to mention in that moment the violence that has permeated many of the protests and instead touting the Democrats’ latest police reform bill, the Justice in Policing Act.
