By The Washington Examiner | Commentary
President-elect Donald Trump’s commanding reelection victory understandably upset many on the Left who tried for nearly a decade to demonize his brand of populist politics as outside the boundaries of acceptable political discourse. But in the past week, two incidents in New York have triggered an outburst of violent rhetoric that condemns anti-Trumpian leftist rhetoric.
After a Manhattan jury on Monday unanimously found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide for the death of a mentally ill homeless man who was threatening subway riders, the leaders of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York called for violence.
BLM of Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome shouted, “It’s a small world, buddy,” as Penny passed him in the courtroom. In case it was unclear if Newsome’s words were intended as a physical threat, Newsome later said at a rally in front of the courthouse, “We need some black vigilantes. … People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same?”
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