FIRST REPUBLICAN OREO TO BE ELECTED IN ARIZONA CRITICIZES PROTESTERS CALLING THEM TERRORISTS, AND IN THE PROCESS, ALSO TRASHES GEORGE FLOYD. The first black Republican elected to the Arizona Legislature is facing blowback after calling Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization” and attacking the character of George Floyd, the man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police last week. On top of the public criticism, at least two prominent advocacy groups are now refusing to work with the lawmaker — Rep. Walt Blackman of Snowflake — on future legislation. Blackman initially denounced the Black Lives Matter movement on KFYI's "Conservative Circus with James T. Harris," saying left-wing "anti-fascists" had infiltrated the movement. He criticized Arizona Schools Superintendent Kathy Hoffman for her support of the organization on the show, likening it to "a governor writing and supporting and endorsing the KKK or an extremist right group and putting it on their letterhead.” Blackman also slammed Floyd, who died on May 25 after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, as "no saint" and "invested in crime" in a video he posted to Facebook. He titled the video: “I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice." georgefloydRIP #icantbreathe2020 #policebrutality #stoppolicekillings #TakeAKnee #hypocrisy #cult #lies #fascisminamerica #racisminamerica #fuckfascism #democracydiesindarkness #saveourdemocracy #betrayal #impeachment #politics #electwomen #treason #trumprussia #americanpolitics #liarinchief #constitutionalcrisis https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJl2nCnc2e/?igshid=whl9o6qdiwcl
