by Peter Hasson
A Democratic congressional candidate downplayed looting and arson during a digital campaign event on Tuesday.
Responding to a questioner who said she was concerned about the left-wing push to abolish the police, Democratic Texas candidate Kim Olson argued that police departments are overfunded, before pivoting to downplaying looting and arson. Calls for abolishing or defunding the police have come in the wake of protests over George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes, video showed.
Olson took issue with what she said were snipers on city buildings during a protest in Dallas, which in 2016 was the site of a mass shooting targeting police officers during a protest.
“What the hell you got snipers on the roof for in a peaceful march? Even if people loot, so what?” Olson said in a video that was first reported by The Washington Examiner. “Burn it to the ground, you know, if that’s what it’s going to take to fix our nation. I know people don’t want me to say that, but I’m just saying.”
Olson is in a runoff for the Democratic primary for Texas’s 24th Congressional District. Rachel Perry, Olson’s campaign manager, said the candidate’s words were “taken out of context.”
“This quote is being taken out of context,” Perry told the Examiner. “As a combat vet, Colonel Olson knows first hand the human heartbreak of violence. She knows we cannot use force to fix a systemic problem of undue violence and discrimination perpetrated by those who are sworn to protect and serve.”
She added: “We have to rebuild from the ground up a color-blind public safety institution across America.”
Olson’s office didn’t immediately return the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for additional comment.
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Peter Hasson is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Kim Olson” by Kim Olson. Background Photo “Looter Damage” by Tony Webster. CC BY 2.0.
What a piece of shit another democrap spewing diarea out of her mouth,she needs to dissapear
I wonder if she would feel the same if they showed up and burned down her house? I mean, whatever it takes, I guess.
Yes!!!
I say that is true…burn all these peoples homes…see how they like it
Another DemocRAT!!!
Hey honey, where you live?
never mind, i look you up in teh internetz.
I have read every single one of these comments and I agree with 99.9% of them, All I can say is for sure that this is not going to end well I don’t know if November’s gonna be able to get things back on track or not. I kind of see a Civil War coming. With crazy bitches like this out there spewing and spouting out poison and violence I don’t know if we can get this back on track or not maybe she’s right maybe we should just let them burn if that’s what it takes that’s what it takes for the democratic controlled cities to come back in line. I’m gonna have to go with Donald Trump 2024 more years maybe he can get this thing back on track God bless America and our veterans God I can’t believe she said that!!!
It is scary!
We do have one weapon left!!
We can vote them out!!!
Get off your couch and get your friends and neighbors to vote!!
Absolutely Trump 20/20