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Democratic Sen Chris Murphy Deletes Tweet Condemning Looting, Vigilantism

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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut deleted a tweet he posted Thursday condemning vigilantism, looting and police shootings of black people, saying it gave the false impression he was equating property damage to murder.

“This isn’t hard. Vigilantism is bad. Police officers shooting black people in the back is bad. Looting and property damage is bad,” Murphy wrote in the now-deleted tweet, which was posted Thursday morning. “You don’t have to choose. You can be against it all. You can just be for peace.”

Sen. Chris Murphy's deleted tweet condemning looting. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Sen. Chris Murphy’s deleted tweet condemning looting. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Murphy said he deleted the tweet because it “mistakenly gave the impression that I thought there was an equivalency between property crime and murder.”

Murphy deleted his condemnation of looting as riots have gripped Kenosha, Wisconsin, for days following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Looting and rioting also broke out in Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon after a homicide suspect committed suicide inside a shopping mall after he was surrounded by police.

Daily Caller contributor Kyle Hooten was robbed at gunpoint as he was covering the Minneapolis riots Wednesday evening.

Public support for protests has plummeted 25 points in Wisconsin since the police-custody death of George Floyd in late May, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Some 61% of Wisconsinites said they were in support of protests against police killings and 36% were against it in the Marquette Law School survey in June. Both figures dropped to 48% in a Marquette Law School survey conducted Aug. 4-9, before police shot Jacob Blake seven times in Kenosha.

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4 Comments

  1. Democrats don’t care about cops and communities as long as they encourage violence they are happy to destroy America. How else to show their loyalty to Obama, Clinto and China.

  2. The Democrats are not “democratic”, so stop calling them “Democratic”. The proper term is Democrat, as in the “Democrat Party”, the “Democrat Senator”, not the “Democratic Party” or “Democratic Senator”.

  3. This just demonstrates that Demoshits in the U.S. Senate do not deserve the title of Senator the title of SENATURD should be affixed to their useless and fecklessness

  4. What a leader. The only difference between murder and property damage is the severity of the punishment. They’re all crimes, all punishable. Murder gets or should get a long rope, property damage still has consequences either light or heavy depending on the crime and value of property damaged. If you attempt to burn a building down with people inside then you need to be put in prison right next to the murderer waiting for a rope. Maybe the rope can be recycled and used again. Just my opinion. Enough is enough.

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