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On April 17, 2021, Waters made incendiary demands calling for [[Black Lives Matter]] rioters to get "more confrontational" (quoted above in Quotes section) during a speech at an anti-police rally in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, as well as using coercion and making threats of violence if the jury in the [[George Floyd]] death case did not return a guilty verdict against Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the accused officer in the case, which led hours later to several Minnesota National Guardsmen getting targeted in a drive-by shooting by a BLM-connected shooter acting on Waters' words.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/minnesota-national-guard-targeted-drive-shooting-hours-rep-maxine-waters-told-blm-confrontational/ Minnesota National Guard Targeted in Drive By Shooting Hours After Rep. Maxine Waters Told BLM To Be ‘More Confrontational’] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>  This led in turn to Georgia Republican congresswoman [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]] calling for a resolution to expel Waters from Congress, pointing out that she intentionally incited violence and openly encouraged criminal behavior with her remarks (which is illegal under federal law<ref name = "Riots">[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2101 18 U.S. Code § 2101 - Riots]</ref>) while travelling across state lines to do so (also illegal<ref name="Riots"/>) and also abused her power by her coercion of the jury in the Floyd case, after which Greene called Waters a danger to society; other GOP Congress members also spoke out against Waters and her inflammatory comments.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-will-introduce-resolution-expel-maxine-waters-congress/ Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Will Introduce Resolution to Expel Maxine Waters From Congress] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>  Greene subsequently created a petition calling for Waters' expulsion from Congress for her actions.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-creates-petition-demanding-maxine-waters-expelled-congress-link-petition-included/ Update: Marjorie Taylor Greene Creates Petition Demanding Maxine Waters Be Expelled From Congress (Link to Petition Included)] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

On April 17, 2021, Waters made incendiary demands calling for [[Black Lives Matter]] rioters to get "more confrontational" (quoted above in Quotes section) during a speech at an anti-police rally in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, as well as using coercion and making threats of violence if the jury in the [[George Floyd]] death case did not return a guilty verdict against Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the accused officer in the case, which led hours later to several Minnesota National Guardsmen getting targeted in a drive-by shooting by a BLM-connected shooter acting on Waters' words.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/minnesota-national-guard-targeted-drive-shooting-hours-rep-maxine-waters-told-blm-confrontational/ Minnesota National Guard Targeted in Drive By Shooting Hours After Rep. Maxine Waters Told BLM To Be ‘More Confrontational’] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>  This led in turn to Georgia Republican congresswoman [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]] calling for a resolution to expel Waters from Congress, pointing out that she intentionally incited violence and openly encouraged criminal behavior with her remarks (which is illegal under federal law<ref name = "Riots">[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2101 18 U.S. Code § 2101 - Riots]</ref>) while travelling across state lines to do so (also illegal<ref name="Riots"/>) and also abused her power by her coercion of the jury in the Floyd case, after which Greene called Waters a danger to society; other GOP Congress members also spoke out against Waters and her inflammatory comments.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-will-introduce-resolution-expel-maxine-waters-congress/ Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Will Introduce Resolution to Expel Maxine Waters From Congress] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>  Greene subsequently created a petition calling for Waters' expulsion from Congress for her actions.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-creates-petition-demanding-maxine-waters-expelled-congress-link-petition-included/ Update: Marjorie Taylor Greene Creates Petition Demanding Maxine Waters Be Expelled From Congress (Link to Petition Included)] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

Soon after the shooting incident, Andrew Thomas, a convicted felon who was legally prohibited for being in possession of firearms, was identified as the driver of the SUV involved in the drive-by shooting based on photos released by the Minneapolis police and was arrested for being in illegal possession of firearms after two guns, ammunition and two spent cartridge casings were found in the SUV.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/breaking-convicted-felon-arrested-firing-national-guard-members-minneapolis-following-violent-speech-maxine-waters/ BREAKING BIG: Convicted Felon Arrested After Firing on National Guard Members in Minneapolis — Following Violent Speech by Maxine Waters] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>  Following the arrest, House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] stood up for fellow Democrat Waters by declaring that she did not have to apologize for her inflammatory comments that led to the drive-by shooting against the National Guardsmen,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/pelosi-says-maxine-waters-not-need-apologize-incitement-violence-led-shots-fired-national-guard/ Pelosi Says Maxine Waters Does Not Need to Apologize For Incitement to Violence That Led to Shots Fired at National Guard] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> prompting House Republican leader [[Kevin McCarthy]] (who had previously said that he would take action if Pelosi refused to) to declare that he would move to formally censure Waters for inciting violence,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/kevin-mccarthy-moves-censure-maxine-waters-breaking-law-inciting-riot/ Kevin McCarthy Moves to Censure Maxine Waters for Breaking the Law and Inciting a Riot] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> while Peter Cahill, the judge presiding over the George Floyd case, chastized Waters for her intimidation of the jurors in the case while moving to deny a motion by Eric Nelson, Chauvin's lawyer, to declare a mistrial out of concerns that Waters' public comments had prejudiced the jury.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/judge-chauvin-trial-blasts-maxine-waters-threatening-comments-jurors-abhorrent-disrespectful-video/ Judge in Chauvin Trial Blasts Maxine Waters For Her Threatening Comments to Jurors, “Abhorrent” and “Disrespectful”] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

Soon after the shooting incident, Andrew Thomas, a convicted felon who was legally prohibited for being in possession of firearms, was identified as the driver of the SUV involved in the drive-by shooting based on photos released by the Minneapolis police and was arrested for being in illegal possession of firearms after two guns, ammunition and two spent cartridge casings were found in the SUV.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/breaking-convicted-felon-arrested-firing-national-guard-members-minneapolis-following-violent-speech-maxine-waters/ BREAKING BIG: Convicted Felon Arrested After Firing on National Guard Members in Minneapolis — Following Violent Speech by Maxine Waters] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>  Following the arrest, White House press secretary [[Jen Psaki]] refused to condemn Waters for her violence-inciting comments<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/psaki-refuses-condemn-democrat-rep-maxine-waters-incitement-violence-call-blm-get-confrontational-video/ Psaki Refuses to Condemn Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters’ Incitement to Violence and Call For BLM to “Get More Confrontational”] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> and House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] stood up for fellow Democrat Waters by declaring that she did not have to apologize for her inflammatory comments that led to the drive-by shooting against the National Guardsmen,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/pelosi-says-maxine-waters-not-need-apologize-incitement-violence-led-shots-fired-national-guard/ Pelosi Says Maxine Waters Does Not Need to Apologize For Incitement to Violence That Led to Shots Fired at National Guard] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> prompting House Republican leader [[Kevin McCarthy]] (who had previously said that he would take action if Pelosi refused to) to declare that he would move to formally censure Waters for inciting violence,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/kevin-mccarthy-moves-censure-maxine-waters-breaking-law-inciting-riot/ Kevin McCarthy Moves to Censure Maxine Waters for Breaking the Law and Inciting a Riot] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> while Peter Cahill, the judge presiding over the George Floyd case, chastized Waters for her intimidation of the jurors in the case while moving to deny a motion by Eric Nelson, Chauvin's lawyer, to declare a mistrial out of concerns that Waters' public comments had prejudiced the jury.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/judge-chauvin-trial-blasts-maxine-waters-threatening-comments-jurors-abhorrent-disrespectful-video/ Judge in Chauvin Trial Blasts Maxine Waters For Her Threatening Comments to Jurors, “Abhorrent” and “Disrespectful”] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

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