The Breitbart News reported Wednesday, April 21, that the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Jim Jordan (R-Okla.), blasted Democrats for “raising bail money for rioters and looters” during Tuesday’s committee meeting, emphasizing that it is Republicans who have been condemning any type of violence.
At Tuesday’s committee meeting, Republican members sought to propose an amendment to withhold funding from local governments that reduce funding for police departments.
During the meeting, Democratic committee members tried to disparage the amendment. Rep. David Cicilline (D-CA) said he opposed the amendment. Rep. Val Demings (D-Mich.) tried to accuse Republicans of supporting the police only when it was politically convenient and not always “caring about law enforcement. Ms. Demings lost her cool after a few words, and the shouting match lasted three minutes. Nadler, a Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, had to bang his gavel to warn the Democratic congresswoman to speak calmly.
Demings’ argument for several minutes was surprisingly that “law enforcement officers need to be treated a little better.”
Jordan believes that Congresswoman Demings “must be kidding me” that Democrats, who have always opposed law enforcement, are starting to educate Republicans in this area.
Jordan said it was because Democrats have been opposed to law enforcement that Congresswoman Demings was so “excited” to oppose the Republican amendment that would prevent police agencies from being deprived of funding by denying grants to local governments that cut police funding.
Jordan pointed out that “when police officers were pelted with ice water bottles and bricks and beaten throughout last summer,” Republicans were condemning the violence, did Democrats?
Jordan went on to explain that, of course, Democrats were busy at that time because “Democrats were raising money to bail out rioters and looters who were using violence against police officers.
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