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After encouraging violent protests back in early June by demanding “show me where it says that protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful,” CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo revisited his comments during Monday’s PrimeTime. By invoking the memory of the late John Lewis, Cuomo asserted that he was merely looking to create “good trouble” with is demand. But things took turn when he argued that anyone concerned about the extremist violence in Portland was going so for a “bad reason.”
“I was borrowing from brother Lewis when I said ‘who says protests is supposed to be peace and quiet and polite.’ I know it says peaceful in the First Amendment,” he said, an apparent reference to the viral video of him getting utterly schooled on the subject by some random guy eating a brick of dry ramen noodle.
Further, he huffed: “But if you just go and sing your songs and go home nothing changes. And that's what he was encouraging.”
But what Congressman Lewis (D-GA) supported, and was a part of in his youth, was non-violent protests. Going back years now, Cuomo has supported a violent mob who threatened a St. Louis couple and has repeatedly shown his affinity for Antifa terrorists. That didn’t stop Cuomo from abusing Lewis’s memory for a political end.
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