So when, like you, I heard Donald Trump at Camp David use the phrase about the peaceful,

what was started as peaceful protest in California, but have now ended up being a pitched

battle because Donald Trump is flaming the passions by sending in illegally the National Guard

over the objection of the California governor.

When I heard him stand at

Camp David, along with his defense secretary and others, and say, well, if they're going to spit,

we're going to hit. When the spitting starts, the hitting starts giving license and permission

for excess force, for police brutality, including of the National Guard. I remind the National Guard,

these are your neighbors, you work in these communities. When I heard that, I said, this sounds

eerily familiar. This sounds like something that Donald Trump said during the end of his last

term when the Black Lives Matter movement was protesting police brutality against people like the late George Floyd.

And Donald Trump took to both social media and to a podium, and he used and paraphrase the

phrase that's now gone down in civil rights history as being one of the most infamous lines,

notorious lines mentioned by a law enforcement official,

the chief of police of Miami said, well, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.

Now that doesn't mean what Donald Trump wants you to believe that meant at the time,

which is that other people in the streets start shooting with the looting, and isn't that said? No, that's not what that meant.

What that meant was, and Donald Trump knows it, is that police will shoot if there's to protect property,

which is, again, an asymmetrical response to the situation. We have First Amendment expression

going on in California. I'm going to put these two pieces together,

spitting and hitting, looting and shooting,

all under the rubric of Donald Trump intentionally picking a fight

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