MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance, a former U.S. Attorney appointed by Obama, seemed to justify violence against ICE agents while speaking to host Ali Velshi on Monday. It’s similar to what we recently saw from Sunny Hostin of The View.
Progressive media figures are not just defending violence against ICE agents, they’re bending over backwards to justify it, mainly using the excuse of masks, which are necessary to protect their own safety and that of their families.
Partial transcript by NewsBusters (emphasis is theirs):
ALI VELSHI: Joyce, let me ask you one thing….You’re a prosecutor, I want to ask you, there are legitimate reasons why some enforcement agencies, some police agencies, go undercover or, you know, do things in shadows to achieve certain things. I would assume that’s specific and, you know, it needs to be, needs to comport with some laws.JOYCE VANCE: Exactly. There are very serious legal restrictions around the use of, for instance, FBI agents as undercover operatives. Very strict rules regarding how it’s done, what they can do, what they can’t do. But you know what I’ve never seen a federal agent working a case do is pull a mask up so nobody knows who they are and go out and terrorize a civilian population.And I think it’s important for us at this point to be very plain-speaking when we say that this is not normal, it’s not acceptable, and it’s a danger sign. You know, we are well past the point where we can just identify danger signs and say, oh, there might be problems down the road. The problems are here, they’re in the right now.And as we see people being pulled off the streets — you know, the danger to law enforcement, quite frankly, is that when you’re masked like that and people don’t know who you are, someone might exercise their lawful right of self-defense to protect themselves, thinking they’re being kidnapped. So the notion that this is for law enforcement’s protection is utterly ludicrous. And we need to do away with that.
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In the early days of the Tea Party movement, progressives in media constantly warned of potential violence that never materialized. Today, many of the same people are working overtime to justify the very real violence of the left.
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