{"id":42950,"date":"2020-05-30T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42950"},"modified":"2020-05-31T01:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:16:40","slug":"dont-go-there-rep-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42950","title":{"rendered":"Don’t go there, Rep. Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump has plenty for which he must answer.<\/p>\n

The abysmal initial pandemic response; the way he lashes out gratuitously; his incessant lying; his denigration of war heroes, of handicapped individuals; his monstrously boorish behavior.<\/p>\n

The death of a Minneapolis man at the hands of rogue cops? No. Let’s not go there.<\/p>\n

And yet, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has determined that Trump is “partially” responsible for George Floyd’s death this week when a Minneapolis police officer held his head to the pavement with a knee planted on the back of his head and neck.<\/p>\n

Floyd has become a martyr for the cause of police reform.<\/p>\n

However, to equate Donald Trump’s hideous behavior with this incident doesn’t fly with me.<\/p>\n

Waters told TMZ<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cMy first thought was: \u2018Not again, not one more killing,\u2019\u201d said the California congresswoman. \u201cAnd I\u2019m reflecting on all of the killings of young black men, in particular, but of course black women, too \u2014 at the hands of the police and at the hands of these white supremacists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking about the way that the president conducts himself,\u201d she declared. \u201cIn a way he\u2019s dog-whistling, and I think that they\u2019re feeling that they can get away with this kind of treatment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump needs to answer for a lot of things. However, the actions of the now-former cop isn’t one of them. The now-former cop had a history of discipline issues related to his treatment of civilians. The George Floyd incident is just the latest.<\/p>\n

Let’s keep our eyes on the real issues. Let us also ensure that we hold Donald Trump responsible for the issues that matter to his conduct as president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump has plenty for which he must answer. The abysmal initial pandemic response; the way he lashes out gratuitously; his incessant lying; his denigration of war heroes, of handicapped individuals; his monstrously boorish behavior. The death of a Minneapolis man at the hands of rogue cops? No. Let’s not go there. And yet, U.S. … Continue reading Don’t go there, Rep. Waters<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,9378,7037],"class_list":["post-42950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-i-cant-breathe","tag-maxine-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42959,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42950\/revisions\/42959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}