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Greene made the comments in an interview streamed on Periscope with right-wing commentator David Harris, and expressed her bitter disappointment that Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd earlier this week. (The Washington Post first reported on the contents of the interview.) Following the verdict, Greene claimed—without evidence—that “people stayed in and were scared to go out because of fear of riots” and that Black Lives Matter “is the strongest terrorist threat in our country.”
“I got called a racist nonstop,” she complained to Harris, claiming Rep. Maxine Waters “threatened the jury” last weekend at a protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, when she encouraged protesters to “get more confrontational” if a guilty verdict was not returned. Greene introduced a resolution to expel Waters, a California Democrat, from the House; House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy moved to censure her but it failed on a party-line vote. “I personally believe, and this is what I tweeted, that there was no way that we could see anything but a guilty verdict,” Greene said. “There was so much pressure it was unreal.” “This is mob rule. This is not law. This is not court. This is not justice, so to speak,” she added. “And I’m not even talking about the verdict. I’m just talking about the fact that BLM has become the most powerful domestic terrorist organization [in] the United States, and they are fully supported all the way in the Congress and the White House.”
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