Although Waters is a California Democrat whose crime-ridden district has undergone two of the nation's deadliest tumults — and her opponents think she should sort out the matters on her doorstep before traveling across the nation and stoking tensions in neighborhoods currently reeling from the deaths of Floyd and the more recent incident involving 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
“Our district is still dilapidated, run down. There has been no rebuilding of infrastructure,” stated Brittani Daniels, adviser to Republican candidate Joe Collins, who is confronting Waters in next year’s election. “The Watts riots were in 1965, and we never rebuilt. There is commemoration of it every year, yet the community is still in ruin. It’s now overrun with a homeless encampment. We have hundreds of thousands of homeless.”
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Waters, 82, has been in the House of Representatives since 1991. Her anti-police, anti-establishment rhetoric escalated after President Donald Trump was elected — a throwback to her early care of radical 1960s race-based groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Movement.
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“If nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the street, but we’ve got to fight for justice,” she told a group of upset Minnesota rebels on Saturday. “I am very hopeful. I hope that we are going to get a verdict that will say 'guilty, guilty, guilty.' And if we don’t, we cannot go away.” We’ve got to get more confrontational.”
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Chauvin was pronounced guilty of all charges on Tuesday.
Waters’s remarks further inflamed tensions after the 1992 Los Angeles disorders following the Rodney King trial. The flashpoint was in her district, where trucker Reginald Denny was pulled from his vehicle and almost beaten to death with a cement block. That area is recognized as South Central and has a poverty rate of 27% — double the national average. Denny is white, and South Central is 98% Hispanic and black. Over 12,000 people were arrested, 63 died, and 2,383 were harmed.
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The Democratic lock on California has helped Waters win 15 terms in Congress, many of those unopposed. In 2018, Republican challenger Omar Navarro seized on the fact that Waters lives outside her district in the prosperous Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park. Her mansion is valued at $6 million.
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“Waters justified the 1992 Los Angeles riots by calling them a ‘rebellion’ while bellowing, ‘No justice, no peace,’” Navarro said. “Maxine Waters continues to push for a divisive culture. She continues to divide people on a constant basis, not unite people.”
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