Democrats should kneel 18 minutes in Capitol for Laken Riley

Unsurprisingly, Democrats have remained quiet during the trial. Compare this to the chaos and rage they caused after the death of career criminal George Floyd. Yet, unlike Floyd, Riley was not a criminal.

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It bears repeating that it was more important to fake sadness and feign outrage over someone who died in police custody after committing a crime and resisting arrest than an innocent nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant. They decided not to pay tribute to the death of an innocent woman killed by a monster.

It was revealed that Riley fought for her life for 18 minutes before dying from the attack. She spent 18 minutes suffering from the violence caused by Ibarra. She spent 18 minutes getting brutally beaten because Democrats cared more about allowing illegal immigrants into the country than securing the border and protecting Americans. They cared more about honoring a career criminal than a young lady in college working toward a career of helping save others.

Eighteen minutes. That is how long Democrats should stay in Emancipation Hall in honor of Riley’s life.

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Eighteen minutes. That is how long Democrats should kneel in Emancipation Hall for penance for Riley’s murder.

It is not a dramatization to say it is absolutely despicable that, for Riley’s death, Democrats have said and done little. A young female nursing student who was the victim of sexual violence did not resonate at all on the Democratic perpetual victimization scale of grievances. Their silence over Riley has been disturbingly deafening. It is indicative of how truly little Democrats really care about the suffering of Americans.

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“Eighteen minutes,” Emmer said. “This is how long Laken Riley fought for her life until she was ultimately murdered because of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats’ open-borders agenda. Police found Laken with her skull bashed in by a rock and her body exposed. Yesterday, we learned that Democrats’ failed policies resulted in Laken’s alleged killer receiving a taxpayer-funded flight from New York to Georgia. This is a slap in the face to the entire Riley family.”

It sure is. And it is a slap that originated from the hands of Democrats who spent the 21st century prioritizing the welfare of people who cause harm instead of protecting those who do good. But Democrats don’t really care about people. All they care about is tragedies they can weaponize to amass political power.

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