Nancy Pelosi voiced her support for George Floyd and his family as she called his death a public assassination.
Speaking from Capitol Hill, the Democratic House Speaker said she felt sad about the spectators who felt helpless as they watched Officer Chauvin kneel on Floyd’s neck for several minutes without being able to do anything about it.
“I feel sad about the spectators, and that that young woman who said she’s up all night because she wonders what she could have done differently. I think if any of us was there, we would have gone up and just pulled him off,” Pelosi said.
“But we might have gotten shot, and that’s probably why somebody didn’t pull him off.”
Speaking to USA Today, the House Speaker admitted she is following the development of Derek Chauvin’s trial even though she didn’t watch it in full. She also went on to voice her support for law enforcement before pointing out that being a cop “isn’t a license to kill.”
“I was raised in a family where, be true to the men in blue – police and fire.
They save our lives. They risk their lives. They leave home. They don’t know if they’re coming home. Their families make sacrifices for our safety, so I have a respect for that as I do for our people here,” Pelosi said before blasting those who take advantage of their position and the power it comes with.
“That isn’t a license to kill. And that’s what happened. That was a public assassination of George Floyd,” she added.
Like President Biden, Pelosi, too, expressed her support for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act saying that the bill which passed the House could benefit officers around the country by providing them with better training.
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