Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Thanked her Democratic colleagues Tuesday after successfully filing a motion from Republican lawmakers to disapprove of her over comments she made about 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 had not been convicted of George Floyd’s death, “We have to stay on the streets and we have to get more active, we have to get more confrontational. We have to make sure of it. that they know we mean business. “
Waters said she was “hopeful” that Chauvin would be convicted of murder, but if he wasn’t, “we can’t leave.”
Chauvin was eventually convicted on all three charges of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday.
WATERS SAYS SHE IS ‘GRANTED’ BUT NOT CELEBRATING AFTER CHAUVIN GUILTYED
On MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” Tuesday, Waters knocked out censorship efforts led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. The vote to file McCarthy’s disapproval resolution was 216-210 and split along party lines.
“Of course I get criticized all the time, and of course the Republicans are targeting me, but as you know I’m passionate about these issues,” Waters told host Joy Reid. “I’m so sorry it often hurts my colleagues. A lot of times they are in these neighborhoods where they fear, where they have a lot of racism, where they have not moved so far 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 convicted me for visiting Minneapolis and my colleagues stood by me, and they voted to file the motion that was filed to condemn me because the Republicans love it and use me as a target.”
Waters went on to mock the GOP’s efforts to “raise money on my back,” which she said portrayed her as a “poor” black woman and foolish “poor” “retirees” for giving Republicans money. .
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“Apparently they don’t understand, they won’t get me out of office,” Waters swore. “Because I’m here until I decide to retire.”
The congressman later stressed that her comments about “confrontation” were not about violence and that she is a “non-violent” person.