McConnell Rips Waters for Protest Remarks: ’Hard To Imagine Anything More Inappropriate’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is blasting Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) for saying protesters need to stay in the streets if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is not convicted of murdering George Floyd.

During a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell said, “It’s harder to imagine anything more inappropriate than a member of Congress flying in from California to inform local leaders, not so subtly, that this defendant had better be found guilty or else there will be big trouble in the streets.”

“Again, so much of nation’s quest for civil rights and equal justice has been the fight to get rid…of extra-judicial violence, to get rid of rigged trials,” he added.

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Waters attended a police brutality protest in Minnesota on Saturday where she said, “We’re looking for a guilty verdict. And we’re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the streets, but we’ve got to fight for justice.”

When asked what protesters should do if Chauvin is not convicted of murdering Floyd, Waters said, “We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”

Waters’ comment sparked outrage among Republicans who accused her of inciting violence and threatening the jury.