A day after encouraging members of the public to “take matters into their own hands” to deal with peaceful protesters, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is doubling down on his endorsement of mob violence.
The Arkansas Republican shared a video on X on Tuesday morning of climate protesters who were blocking a road in France being grabbed and tossed on the side of the road by angry drivers. “How it should be done,” he captioned the video.
How it should be done:
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 16, 2024
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“I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense,” he wrote on X about protesters criticizing the U.S. response to the Israel-Hamas war.
Cotton, who famously penned an op-ed in 2020 calling for troops to be deployed to crush nationwide protests, also suggested in comments to Fox News that protesters blocking the road should have their hands “glued … to a car or the pavement,” noting that it’d be “probably pretty painful to have their skin ripped off.”
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was among those to express disgust at Cotton’s comments, saying, “Here we have a guy, Tom Cotton, that went to Harvard, undergrad and law school, served in the military, who is talking about throwing people off the Golden Gate Bridge, ripping their skin off. We had a United States senator go on a network, national network, suggesting that Americans rip skin off of people’s hands because they’re aggravated and take matters into their own hands.”
While some commenters cheered Cotton’s latest endorsement of vigilante violence on, many others reminded him that what he’s pushing for is actually assault in the eyes of the law.
“Here’s a United States Senator, advocate of assault and battery. Nice Tom,” one person wrote.
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You disrupt traffic..create chaos..that is not peaceful
protesting.
90 days in jail…
1st offense.
Totally agree with him
So I would do to every Trump rally that disrupt traffic.
Suppose you tell me of any demonstration or parade , or even flea and farmer market that do not disrupt traffic….
When had a trump rally disrupted traffic you incorrigible degenerate?plz stop with the leftist lies.just stop.you’ve lied your way to getting bulldozed in November.
First he didn’t call for violence unlike democrats have against the Supreme Court and Republicans and people going to dinner or those showing MAGA hats and signal . It stands for Make America Great Again after the disastrous democrat agenda . Biden has been nothing but an embarrassment and disgrace for America
I totally agree with Senator Cotton!! Way past time to deal with these vermin because those responsible for maintaining law and order won’t!
I agree with you and Cotton.
Biden sleeps thru his oh so important climate conference and it’s A OK.trump dozes during this illegal court scam and its national news.keep the leftist lies coming.look at the polls,and we thank you
Violence is never called for, the scum who attacked our capital should have all been arrested, peaceful protest of the 60’s were met with this type for Violence, the country should be proud of the past peaceful protesters.
Of course this is fine! No violence! Just removing the protesters out of the road so traffic can flow! If the cops can’t do such a simple common sense move well then… surely the people can!
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I have had a lifetime of violence and revolutions which have never had a happy ending even to the winners….I honestly would like to see these macho Republican politicians always soooo full of bravado having to deal with a real situation where their life is at stake.
Facts are, the right to protest , address your complains in a peaceful matter is legal in most Democratic systems. Maybe Cotton would like to move to Cuba or Russia or N Korea where protests are deal with in a matter most of his acceptance.
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Any msm that condones blocking traffic as a peaceful protest is delusional. It is violence. Citizens around the world are fed up with their daily lives being disrupted by these lunatics. Anyone that supports a terrorist organization such as hamas should be in prison for supporting terrorist. These peaceful protest are designed to create heightened tension. By simply moving these lunatics out of the way was not a violent act as the msm and the publisher of this article are suggesting. In fact it could be looked at as an act of kindness. Dealing with those that do not have the brain power to move out from in front of automobiles should be treated as the toddlers that do not know better. How sad that anyone condones this childish behavior. It was insane in the 60’s and 70’s and it is still insane behavior. They can’t use their words to defend their beliefs so they resort to passive aggressive behavior. I bet their parents are so proud of their babies sitting in the street in front of automobiles. If the msm did their journalistic jobs they would never support anyone behaving in this manner. Instead these leftist “journalists” are a huge part of the problem by defending those that block traffic or disrupt any citizens daily lives. Anyone journalist that supports these terrorist to get a story are just as much a terrorist as if they were actually members of hamas. If it that difficult to report actual news maybe a new line of work is in order.
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