The Internet is now calling him “Woke Pat Robinson.”
The right wing, borderline Q’Anon-like televangelist blindsided folks on Thursday with a blistering rebuke of racist policing, Derek Chauvin and the notion that any cop could mistake a gun for a taser.
The “700 Club” host kept it shockingly “100” when it comes to police violence against Black Americans. While making it clear he’s still “pro-police,” Robertson said on his show Thursday that police officers have “got to stop this stuff” while reacting to the killings of
Daunte Wright and
Caron Nazario.
“You know, the police in Virginia picked up a lieutenant in the Army and began to give him trouble and our state police are highly trained, but why they don’t stop this? And this thing that’s going on in Minnesota with Derek Chauvin. I mean, they ought to put him under the jail. He has caused so much trouble by kneeling on the death of George Floyd I mean his neck it’s just terrible what’
Isle of Wight NAACP President Valerie Butler wants Windsor Police Chief Rodney Riddle to resign. Author: Ali Weatherton (13News Now) Published: 7:02 PM EDT April 15, 2021 Updated: 7:02 PM EDT April 15, 2021
WINDSOR, Va. Members of the Isle of Wight NAACP are calling for the Windsor Police Chief, Rodney Riddle, to resign.
“We feel like Chief Riddle was complicit with the traffic stop that actually occurred on December 5th,” said President Valerie Butler, who added that the chief’s statements from his press conference were appalling.
“It was more about the video, not the act that he actually encountered with the officers, ” Butler explained.
Cardi B Deletes Tweet Dismissing Call to Defund Police
“We need cops,” the rapper says; “We just need strict laws” for themLindsey Ellefson | April 16, 2021 @ 11:01 AM
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Rapper Cardi B tweeted that the idea of defunding the police is “bullsh–” Thursday, but deleted her post shortly thereafter.
“That’s bullsh– to me. We need cops and that’s facts,” said the now-deleted response to another user’s call to defund. “We just need strict laws for cops.”
She went on, “If you shot somebody just like civilians you will go to jail that same day, get [charged], wait for bond and go to trial. That will make you think twice about shooting anyone.”
After a decade of statewide losses, a handful of Virginia Republicans hope to unseat the twice-elected incumbent, Democrat Mark Herring. But so does a young, progressive Democratic primary opponent.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring speaks to reporters after a hearing on the removal of a Confederate statue in Richmond last June. (Courthouse News photo/Brad Kutner)
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) With the release of fundraising data Friday morning, the Virginia attorney general race, one of three statewide elections in the commonwealth this year, is becoming clearer. A handful of Republicans are battling for the chance to take over the state’s top lawyer seat for the first time in eight years, but the state’s shift to the left won’t make it easy.