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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4917567" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p><h2>[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests/3317862001/[/URL]</h2><h2>Top Democrats told Black Lives Matter activists to steer clear of violence</h2><p>Multiple high-profile Democrats have spoken out against violence at Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May.</p><p></p><p>On May 31, the fifth night of demonstrations, former Vice President Joe Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, <a href="https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/we-are-a-nation-furious-at-injustice-9dcffd81978f" target="_blank">wrote in a statement</a> that protesting police brutality is “right and necessary” and the “American response.&quot;</p><p></p><p>“But burning down communities and needless destruction is not,” Biden wrote. “Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.”</p><p></p><p>On June 3, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the majority whip of the House of Representatives, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live-race-in-america-conversation-with-rep-jim-clyburn/" target="_blank">told The Washington Post</a> that the movement for racial justice suffers when it is “hijacked” by violence.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4917567, member: 66082"] [HEADING=1][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests/3317862001/[/URL][/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Top Democrats told Black Lives Matter activists to steer clear of violence[/HEADING] Multiple high-profile Democrats have spoken out against violence at Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May. On May 31, the fifth night of demonstrations, former Vice President Joe Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, [URL='https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/we-are-a-nation-furious-at-injustice-9dcffd81978f']wrote in a statement[/URL] that protesting police brutality is “right and necessary” and the “American response." “But burning down communities and needless destruction is not,” Biden wrote. “Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.” On June 3, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the majority whip of the House of Representatives, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live-race-in-america-conversation-with-rep-jim-clyburn/']told The Washington Post[/URL] that the movement for racial justice suffers when it is “hijacked” by violence. [/QUOTE]

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