Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and his wife were heckled by protesters as they left the White House Thursday night following President Trump’s exhausting Republican National Convention acceptance speech. The couple was en route to their hotel, and though they were accompanied by police escorts, the demands from the crowd—that Paul acknowledge Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot and killed by Louisville police officers during a no-knock raid in March—left Paul shaken, afraid, and... desperate to bitch about it on Twitter.
Paul was especially frustrated by the protesters’ demands to “say her name”—her being Taylor—and his rationale is, admittedly, fair: In June, Paulthe Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, a bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement and federally funded police departments from conducting no-knock warrants.
to mandatory minimums and supports the restoration of voting rights for some non-violent formerly incarcerated people.That’s all well and good, and maybe the protesters weren’t aware of Paul’s involvement with the Breonna Taylor Act. Still, Paul is a raging prick who cannot resist undermining his own sliver of good politics with melodramatic, inflammatory nonsense.
“They were inciting a riot and they would have killed us had the police not been there,” the senator added.“It’s become so dangerous for us and I don’t hear Joe Biden or Kamala Harris saying one thing about the violence. This mob is their voters. This is the new Democrat party, and if we don’t resist this, the United States is going to become Portland. We’re going to become Chicago. All of these failed cities Democrats have run, the president said in his speech,” he said.
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