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Adam Schiff drew criticism for stirring the fires of racial discontent when he took to Twitter with a dishonest message about the death of Breonna Taylor, the young Kentucky woman who ranked just below George Floyd as a martyr figure that fueled the violent riots of the summer of 2020, a time when criminals were allowed to wreak havoc in major U.S. cities.
The shifty California Democrat who has been one of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top henchmen took a shot at police at a time when his party could be washed out of power as a result of the explosion in violent crime that was sparked by Democrats and their embrace of the militant Black Lives Matter movement along with their push to defund and dismantle police departments.
On Friday, Schiff fanned the flames over the death of the 26-year-old black woman who was struck by gunfire in her Louisville apartment by law enforcement officers who were conducting a drug raid when her boyfriend shot at them. The cops returned fire, killing her in the hail of bullets that resulted from his fatal lack of judgement.
Her death, which provided the rallying cry of “Say Her Name” that was embraced by BLM activists as well as professional athletes, remains as a still-fresh wound to many, and Democrats from Joe Biden on down can always be counted on to rub the salt in it for political gain.
“Breonna Taylor should be alive today,” wrote Schiff. “But her life was ended by a police officer who shot into her apartment while she slept.”
“Her death was a needless tragedy,” he added. “Made worse by the absence of accountability…My prayers are with her family.”
The tweet came on the day when a jury acquitted a former Louisville police officer who was a participant in the drug raid that ended Taylor’s life, setting the state for more protests/riots with the two-year anniversary of the incident coming next week.
Schiff’s fellow House Democrat, Rep. Cori Bush also took to Twitter on Friday to rage against the police in a call for action.
If Schiff was looking to stir emotions with his tweet, he was successful with congressional hopeful Chris Manning giving the impeachment inquisitor a refresher on what really went down.
“Every time this man speaks or tweets I respect him less if that is even possible. Breonna Taylor was not sleeping in her bed when she was shot by police. Her and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in the hallway. They were awoken by the police knocking on their door,” he wrote.
“Because they were asleep when the police knocked and announced themselves they didn’t know it was the police. Walker grabbed his gun and got out of bed to see what the noise was. Taylor got out with him. When they got to the hallway Walker shot at police hitting an officer,” he noted.
He added, “Police returned fire killing Taylor. An officer was fired from the department and charged with endangerment because he fired into the house from outside the building. He was recently acquitted by a jury. Two things can be true at the same time without lying to the public.”
Manning then called out Schiff for the likely motivation behind his tweet: “Raiding homes in the middle of the night whether announced or unannounced is a terrible tactic that often leads to innocent people being killed. It should be stopped by all departments. Taylor’s death was tragic. But lying about how she died to drum up hate is despicable.”
Manning topped it off with an observation of that which should now be obvious to all Americans.
“But @RepAdamSchiff is a man without integrity so it isn’t surprising. There are few in Congress less deserving of their position than him,” he wrote, a fitting exclamation point on Schiff’s shameless race-baiting.
Despite the insistence by Democrats, the media, celebs and BLM activists on portraying Taylor’s death as rooted in racism, that just isn’t the case and one of the officers who was involved in the raid spoke out in a 2020 ABC interview.
“This had nothing to do with race, nothing at all,” said Jonathan Mattingly who was wounded by Taylor’s trigger happy boyfriend.
“Because this is not relatable to George Floyd. This is nothing like that,” Mattingly said. “It’s not Ahmaud Arbery. It’s nothing like it. These are two totally different types of incidences. It’s not a race thing like people wanna try to make it to be. It’s not,” he said of the false narrative.
Taylor was also not the innocent angel that she has been portrayed as and willingly associated with known drug dealers, potentially putting herself in harm’s way, she was also not asleep at the time of the raid, a major piece of misinformation that was a key to stoking outrage.
There should be no honest argument that Schiff is NOT a race-baiter and in an election year when they are expected to be walloped by voters who are fed up with their failed policies and divisive ideology, Democrats will once again be heavily reliant on whipping up racial animosity to energize their base.
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