Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, resigned her Democratic colleagues Tuesday after they successfully filed a motion by Republican lawmakers to condemn her over remarks she made over the Derek Chauvin trial over the weekend.
Waters traveled to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Saturday and told reporters that if the former Minneapolis police officer is not found guilty of killing George Floyd: ‘We need to stay on the streets and we need to be more active, we need to become more confrontational . We need to make sure they know what we mean by business. ‘
Waters said she is ‘hopeful’ that Chauvin will be convicted of murder, but if he does not, we can not leave. ‘
Chauvin was finally convicted on Tuesday on all three charges of murder and manslaughter.
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On MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” on Tuesday, Waters thwarted attempts at disapproval led by Kevin McCarthy, leader of the House of Representatives, R-Calif. The vote to table McCarthy’s censorship resolution was 216-210 and divided along party lines.
“Of course I’m constantly criticized, and of course the Republicans make me a target, but as you know, I’m passionate about these issues,” Waters told host Joy Reid. “I’m so sorry it often causes pain to my colleagues. They’re many times in these districts where they’re scared, where they have a lot of racism, where they have not moved to the point that they have a decent conversation about these issues and sometimes it is very difficult for them.
“But they got up with me today,” she added. “They expelled me for misconduct because of my visit to Minneapolis and my colleagues stood with me, and they voted to table the motion that was for my sake, because the Republicans like to have me as target. “
Waters mocked GOP’s attempts to ‘raise money on my back’, which she said portrayed as an ‘upbeat’ black woman and ‘poor’ pensioners’ foolish to give Republicans money.
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“They do not seem to understand, they are not going to take me out of office,” Waters promised. “Because I’m here until I decide to retire.”
The congresswoman later insisted that her comments on ‘confrontation’ were not about violence and that she was a ‘non-violent’ person.