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NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
"You know the left is on the verge when someone who's a progressive activist, a Bernie Sanders supporter, and an outspoken opponent of "white privilege" has to apologize for not being "woke" enough to approve the prospect of civilians attacking police! Yet that's precisely what happened on MSNBC this morning.
The George Floyd case has sparked a debate in some quarters over the right of onlookers to "intervene" if they believe a police officer is "murdering" someone. In essence, the question is whether people can attack a cop if they believe the cop is unjustly harming someone else.
On her MSNBC show today, Tiffany Cross expressed the desire in such circumstances to "knock" the police officer off the suspect, regretting that the law apparently wouldn't permit it. Cross asked her guest, Gyasi Ross, a Native American lawyer, whether there was something that could be done.
Ross replied that as a lawyer, he cannot encourage people to do something that is "patently" illegal, and then added this: "That's an unfortunate truth, Tiffany. I really would like to say something more woke."
Ross prefaced his remarks by saying he had been "terrified" of being asked the question that Cross raised. In other words, Ross was afraid of having his lack of sufficient wokeness exposed on live, liberal TV!
Commenter: "Well put. Along similar lines, the article said that these people are proposing that civilians should be the judge, jury and potential executioners of the police. This, without possibly knowing all the facts of the situation . . . "
"You know the left is on the verge when someone who's a progressive activist, a Bernie Sanders supporter, and an outspoken opponent of "white privilege" has to apologize for not being "woke" enough to approve the prospect of civilians attacking police! Yet that's precisely what happened on MSNBC this morning.
The George Floyd case has sparked a debate in some quarters over the right of onlookers to "intervene" if they believe a police officer is "murdering" someone. In essence, the question is whether people can attack a cop if they believe the cop is unjustly harming someone else.
On her MSNBC show today, Tiffany Cross expressed the desire in such circumstances to "knock" the police officer off the suspect, regretting that the law apparently wouldn't permit it. Cross asked her guest, Gyasi Ross, a Native American lawyer, whether there was something that could be done.
Ross replied that as a lawyer, he cannot encourage people to do something that is "patently" illegal, and then added this: "That's an unfortunate truth, Tiffany. I really would like to say something more woke."
Ross prefaced his remarks by saying he had been "terrified" of being asked the question that Cross raised. In other words, Ross was afraid of having his lack of sufficient wokeness exposed on live, liberal TV!
Commenter: "Well put. Along similar lines, the article said that these people are proposing that civilians should be the judge, jury and potential executioners of the police. This, without possibly knowing all the facts of the situation . . . "
