Gym Jordan is the new social-media poster boy for ‘f*cked around, found out’. Per the Washington Post:
Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) was midway through an impassioned speech on Tuesday accusing Republicans of using police officers as “pawns” in their efforts to amend a hate-crime bill when Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) interrupted to object.
“I have the floor, Mr. Jordan,” Demings exclaimed, banging her open palm on the table. “Did I strike a nerve?”
Demings, who spent 27 years with the Orlando Police Department, heatedly accused Jordan of ignorance about law enforcement, sparking a shouting match with the Republican…
Tuesday’s argument came during a debate over another piece of legislation, the Covid-19 Hate Crime Act, which seeks to address a surge in racist attacks against Asian Americans in part by providing funding to law enforcement agencies to respond to hate crimes…
(Committee Chair) Nadler told Jordan he “must not interrupt someone who has the time” and he “simply can’t shout out” if he disagrees — a habit that has often left Jordan in conflict with Democrats, including during a hearing last week where he spoke over other lawmakers in a coronavirus hearing.
Demings then shot back at Jordan, saying, “Mr. Jordan you don’t know what the heck you’re talking about.”
“I know about my motive,” Jordan said…
We all know about your motive, Gym.
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As seen on David Gray’s Facebook:
The only thing that’s missing is the guy who apparently looked at a cop wrong as he was riding by on his bicycle.
I guess that’s fair since he was harassed, but not killed. Nope. That’s not true. After I typed that, I thought I should look up the incident so I could describe it accurately, and immediately found this from September of 2020. Los Angeles Police Shoot Black Man on Bicycle.