Trump mocks MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting shot with rubber bullet

[TreeFrogTrader]

Looks pretty peaceful to a demonrat.

Once again MSDNC gets the Baghdad Bob Reporter of the Year award.

Sheesh.

 

[CaptainObvious]

Facts have a bias towards truth.

Meanwhile...Hannity? Carlson? Jones? Where are their rubber bullets?

To my knowledge they haven't put themselves out in the streets with the mob. Velshi was clearly in the middle of a riot and calling it "mostly peaceful" doesn't change that fact. Reporters get shot all the time in combat zones. The left has decided to turn the streets into combat zones so it should come as no surprise to anyone that people will be assaulted and possibly shot by any number of those out in the thick of it. He wants to put himself in harm's way then whatever happens is on him, as it is for everyone else out there who doesn't have to be there. The only innocents are the property owners who are simply trying to defend against the mob.

 

[wildchild]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/media/trump-velshi-msnbc-shot/index.html

President Donald Trump on Friday mocked an American news anchor for being shot with a rubber bullet during George Floyd protests in May, calling it a "beautiful sight" during a political rally in Minnesota.

While speaking of the protests against racial injustice that swept the country earlier this year, Trump recalled the moment that police fired on MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi and his crew as they were reporting from Minneapolis.

"I remember this guy Velshi," Trump said. "He got hit in the knee with a canister of tear gas and he went down. He was down. 'My knee, my knee.' Nobody cared, these guys didn't care, they moved him aside."

"And they just walked right through. It was the most beautiful thing," Trump said. "No, because after we take all that crap for weeks and weeks, and you finally see men get up there and go right through them, wasn't it really a beautiful sight? It's called law and order."


The crowd then erupted in applause and cheers.

Velshi responded to Trump in a tweet, noting he was actually hit by a rubber bullet, not a tear gas canister, and asking, "What law did I break while covering an entirely peaceful (yes, entirely peaceful) march?"

In a statement, an MSNBC spokesperson said, "Freedom of the press is a pillar of our democracy. When the President mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm's way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms."

During his live broadcast in May, Velshi and his crew could be seen covering a protest during broad daylight when police began firing tear gas at them.
"There has been no provocation, there was nothing that happened whatsoever," Velshi said. "The police pulled into this intersection, unprovoked, right into the middle of the crowd, split the crowd, started firing in both directions. They now have fired at us."

Velshi and his crew quickly moved back, but several minutes later Velshi was struck by a rubber bullet and grasped his knee in visible pain.

"Oh s**t," Velshi said. "Alright guys, I got hit."

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh falsely asserted in a statement to CNN on Saturday that Trump was "calling the restoration of peace 'a beautiful thing,'" despite the President's clear remarks about Velshi having been captured on video.

Murtaugh's statement concluded by attacking the media.

Spokespeople for the White House did not immediately respond Saturday with a comment on Trump's remarks.

Trump and his allies have for years aimed to discredit journalists and news organizations, often through the use of lies and dishonest rhetoric. His celebration of an American journalist being attacked by police is jarring, but perhaps not surprising from a president that has branded the press as "the enemy of the people."

The police who shot the reporter with a rubber bullet were mostly peaceful.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

To my knowledge they haven't put themselves out in the streets with the mob.

That’s because they don’t report protests. They fabricate narratives from the comfort of their echo chambers.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Reporters get shot all the time in combat zones.

A Trump supporting cop shot him. Are you really going to defend or minimize encroaching authoritarianism? Is that who you have become?

 

[Frederick Foresight]

The police who shot the reporter with a rubber bullet were mostly peaceful.

And what would he have been doing for the cop to warrant shooting him? Are you too stupid to be embarrassed by the direction your country is going in the hands of your idiot preside?

 

[CaptainObvious]

A Trump supporting cop shot him. Are you really going to defend or minimize encroaching authoritarianism? Is that who you have become?

Are you claiming the cop specifically targeted him? If so, and there is evidence of that, then it should be investigated. Since there is no evidence of that the activist "reporter" was simply embedded among the violent mob and was hit randomly. Again, those volunteers going into a combat zone should expect to be in the line of fire.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Are you claiming the cop specifically targeted him? If so, and there is evidence of that, then it should be investigated. Since there is no evidence of that the activist "reporter" was simply embedded among the violent mob and was hit randomly. Again, those volunteers going into a combat zone should expect to be in the line of fire.

Does it actually matter whether he was specifically targeted? “Random” rubber bullets shot into a crowd are okay? Are you reading your own posts?!

 

[CaptainObvious]

Does it actually matter whether he was specifically targeted? “Random” rubber bullets shot into a crowd are okay? Are you reading your own posts?!

Yes, it absolutely matters if he was specifically targeted. That is the difference between an illegal act and what is lawful riot control, a riot which he knowingly was in the middle of.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Yes, it absolutely matters if he was specifically targeted. That is the difference between an illegal act and what is lawful riot control, a riot which he knowingly was in the middle of.

Lawful riot control is shooting “random” rubber bullets into a crowd? To the glee of Dear Leader?