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.
If she really said this,should she be charged with inciting a riot?
Democratic Demonic Woman! Her words have reached God’s ears!
Yrs she should! She took an oath of office to protect & serve and she’s Not!
Sounds like a terroristic threat to me and that is punishable by prison.
ITS LIKE EVERY AREA OF POLITICS I FIND A DENENTED DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN ADVOCATING FOR HATE, DIVISION, DESTRUCTION, VIOLATION OF OUR LAWS, FALSE REPORTS AND CORRUPTION THE PARTY IS NOT AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT BUT A COMMUNIST DEMOCRAT FULLY COMPROMISED❤🇺🇸❤VOTE RED FOLKS TAKE BACK YOUR STATE
Let’s start with your property then
I agree and sure hope the police don’t help her when she needs it what a POS.
PSYCHOTIC WOMAN
What the Democrats need, and everyone agitating this kind of Behavior and all of this emoral unrest,needs to be Given the Book of Life, and Repent, before it is to Late. GOD BLESS America!!!.
Hey FBI, this sounds like a terrorist threat!
Okay let them loot and burn her house!!!
Could you imagine if the shop owners and family of them decide to stand up to the looters and start shooting to save property and life what theleft would say.
If that’s what it takes. If the police hands are tied by mayor’s or governor s that’s what will happen. Look at that poor man who worked his whole life to build his business. He tried to stop them. The tugs drug him in the street. Started kicking him. He die
Typical communist bullshit. People like this vermin are why the dems party is a shambles. This scumbag needs to be remembered when the shooting starts. She should be among the first to die.
Post the address of her home and see if gets looted and burned. Lead by example.
Exactly ,they need to post where she lives ,& protest in front of her house.do what her comment says ,then we’ll see what happens if she likes it?she should be ashame of herself?I can’t believed she served in the military?& make a comment like that?wow!that is not a smart way to de-escalate the tension?& she wanted to be a leader of her community?NO?NO?NO? Texas need to checked on her.you just don’t say that kind a shit,you know?DON’T VOTE FOR HER?SHE’S GONNA BE ANOTHER PELOSI?NO MORE OF THAT SHIT KIND I F PEOPLE IN CONGRESS?
I can’t believe that she served what an embarrassment for the armed forces. She should be ashamed of herself.
Democrats are only looting and burning their own cities.
Well that moron just lit the match to burn her own house down, figuratively speaking. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if someone burns her house down…literally.
Let her house burn to the ground after these hoodlums torch it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I believe this,, I voted for Trump because said he would take care of our legal system which is A joke, actors play like Judges,
Rule of law forgotten, Ever State needs to have there judiciary system brought back into line
Look at which states are out of control you’ll find they are controlled by democrats at every level.
TRUMP HAS NOW APPOINTED OVER 269 JUDGES TO TAKE VACCANT SEATS THAT OBAMA IGNORED ❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸❤
So does that mean we can burn YOUR house to the ground?
When someone openly advocates criminal violence, it’s a dangerous and, it would seem, a criminal incitement. Such reckless talk may very possibly result in, as the old adage goes, “what goes around, comes around”, ” you reap what you sow” and “be careful for what you ask”.
AGREED! AND COMING FROM A PUBLIC FIGURE. POLITICS HAS BECOME DISGUSTING FIR TYEVWHOLEVWORLD TO SEE UNDER CLINTON, OBAMA ERA VOTE RED TAKE BACKMYOUR STATE
Yes!! Who cares!! Burn it to the ground if that’s what it takes!!
Tennessee if y’all vote this wart in office you are not proud of your state or your country! If she’s ok with burning down building and looters then she’s nothing but a terrorist.Kick her ass go bye!
Exactly!!!!
She is a POS