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Democratic State Senator Warns Republicans of Riots After State Passes Pro-Police Bill
The Tennessee Star ^ | Matthew Giffin | March 15, 2024

Posted on 03/16/2024 7:37:08 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Tennessee State Senator Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville) warned state Republicans on Thursday moments after the Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill prohibiting local governments from inhibiting law enforcement that her Democrat constituents may respond with riots.

@FoxNashville posted footage of the Thursday press conference at which Oliver and other Democrat legislators held at the Capitol in which they announced their disapproval of the bill.

The legislation easily passed in the State Senate on Thursday in a partisan vote 26 to 6. The previous week, the Tennessee House passed the bill in a partisan 68 to 24 vote.

“So yeah, we’re gonna fight,” said Oliver (pictured above), co-founder of a Tennessee-based social justice activist group called the Equity Alliance. “Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard. You [sic] ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our districts [sic] gonna do?”

“Gloves off,” she continued. “Like, we’re gonna fight like hell, you don’t expect us to respond when you gaslight us every single day with these bills?”

She went on to call the legislation a “Jim Crow bill” and the lawmakers who voted for it “Confederates.”

State Senator Brent Taylor, who sponsored the legislation, responded to Oliver’s comments in a thread on X. Taylor lamented the continued opposition from Democrats and said he has had many people in Democrat-represented districts thank him for his work.

At the same presser, State Senator London Lamar (D-Nashville) claimed Tennessee Republicans were engaging in “a form of slavery,” according to more footage posted to X by KWAM.

Lamar claimed that people were being silenced in the General Assembly and equated such behavior with enslavement.

“I feel like a slave sometimes in this building,” Lamar said. “I am tired of [sic] Republican Party expecting us as minorities to do what they want to do but treat us disrespectfully. Nah, we’re not doing that [sic] no more… We’re at the time of the session where [sic] gloves off.”

Lamar in particular was slammed for her comments comparing her service as a state senator to slavery.

“Holy Cow!!” wrote Newsmax host and author Todd Starnes on X. “Are the Republicans forcing you to lift that bale or pick cotton? This is an international story! Who knew that slaves were still working Tennessee’s plantations?”

The bill, SB2572/HB1931, would prohibit local governments from restricting the ability of law enforcement officers to carry out their duties of preventing crime, detecting crime, and apprehending offenders, provided they do so in a legal way. Existing local laws that contradict SB2572/HB1931 would become null and void upon the bill’s passage.

A recently passed Memphis City Council ordinance barring the Memphis Police Department (MPD) from initiating pretextual traffic stops would be affected. The council passed the ordinance in view of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal encounter with five MPD officers during a traffic stop in January 2023.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
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To: j.havenfarm

And Mempus too...big time!


41 posted on 03/16/2024 8:42:28 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Savage Beast
Bring it...


42 posted on 03/16/2024 8:43:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Encouraging an insurrection?


43 posted on 03/16/2024 8:44:57 AM PDT by cp124 (The Democrats hate America.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Democrats = The Party Of Evil.

They will stop at nothing to establish total dominance. The communists are most successful at this, which is why they aligned themselves with the commies.


44 posted on 03/16/2024 8:45:27 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Mr. Mojo

For decades southern sheriffs and police departments were the enforcers of Jim Crow laws and segregation. It is no surprise that many black Americans distrust local and state law enforcement, and assume the worst motives when blacks are killed or abused (in reality or false belief) via police (mis)conduct. Ironically this distrust prevents law enforcement from protecting blacks citizens from black criminals, which further discounts the value of police interactions.

When a local population perceives that the police are slaughtering its members, then the legislature prevents locally elected governments from constraining such abuse, it is hardly surprising that leftist politicians would exploit the situation rather than propose workable solutions.

I get it that state officials do not want to allow localities to emulate Haiti. There needs to be a combined propaganda campaign to promote the benefits of the rule of law, and institutional methods/programs/reforms to prevent the reality and perception of LE abuses.


45 posted on 03/16/2024 8:57:24 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: redfreedom

And that is why we need a new Pinochet.


46 posted on 03/16/2024 8:57:44 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Tennessee State Senator Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville) warned state Republicans on Thursday moments after the Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill prohibiting local governments from inhibiting law enforcement that her Democrat constituents may respond with riots.”

That is a threat. Treat it as such. Rioters should be shot.


47 posted on 03/16/2024 9:03:36 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: cp124

Yes, she is. Lock her up and throw away the key. And then free the January 6 protesters.


48 posted on 03/16/2024 9:03:49 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Mr. Mojo

She’s an Insurrectionist and must be quelled like the J6 prisoners if she starts a Riot


49 posted on 03/16/2024 9:36:38 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Mr. Mojo

These Democrat have no idea what true slavery is like! They may have ancestors that were slaves but they haven’t ever been slaves themselves. They will never be slaves. It is an insult to the American people when they declare that they feel like slaves when they are in positions of power in the government and they don’t get their way. They are telling the rest of us that they will encourage riots because they didn’t get their way. They want us all to be afraid if we don’t let them have their way. It’s how they operate.


50 posted on 03/16/2024 9:36:55 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: Mr. Mojo

IF EVERY SINGLE White person who has talents & a work ethic sat down & stopped their personal production for 1 WEEK-—WE would find out before the 4th day how useless the POC can be.


51 posted on 03/16/2024 9:39:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: jeffersondem

.. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.

Double edged sword. The democrats MO is crushing opposition to their lunacy. Like all of this civil rights charges in 2024 with respect to basic legislation.

At this point I feel like I really don’t care of they want to riot. You can only back up so far.


52 posted on 03/16/2024 9:40:05 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: DCBryan1

MY LIST HAS GOTTEN LARGER & LARGER.

GOOD THING I HAVE PLENTY OF PAPER.


53 posted on 03/16/2024 9:40:58 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Fresh Wind

Would there even be a productive WIG business if thee women all disappeared???


54 posted on 03/16/2024 9:42:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: caww

GET A DECENT HAIR DO


55 posted on 03/16/2024 9:42:57 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Mr. Mojo

To run for office you should have to pass an IQ test to show you have an IQ ,LOL


56 posted on 03/16/2024 9:45:49 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mr. Mojo

Round up all verifiable commies as well as their enablers and ship them overseas. Problem mostly solved.


57 posted on 03/16/2024 9:50:11 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Glad I departed Memphis 55 years ago and never looked back.


58 posted on 03/16/2024 10:06:19 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“I feel like a slave sometimes in this building,”


Then, Charlane do what some resourceful real slaves did—run away to freedom in Canada. Don’t worry, slave-catchers won’t be after you to bring you back to slavery in the Tennessee senate.


59 posted on 03/16/2024 10:10:05 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: BenLurkin
"...her Democrat constituents may respond with riots..."

"Criminals. A key Democrat Party constituency"

Another "Mad Maxine" wannabe...

How does Nashville's growth impact equity and affordability?(Tennessee State Senator Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville)...)

60 posted on 03/16/2024 10:11:03 AM PDT by guest7
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