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Maxine Waters responds after Chauvin trial judge claims her comments could ‘overturn’ trial

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Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, is dismissing claims that her remarks to “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted could lead to the trial being “overturned” on appeal.

Waters had called for demonstrators to “get more confrontational” if no guilty verdict was reached in Chauvin case.

“We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” Waters told a crowd of demonstrators Sunday night in Brooklyn Center, Minn.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill Monday, Waters falsely claimed that her “words don’t matter.”

Waters then denied that her statements could lead to an appeal. When asked by a CNN reporter about the judge stating that her remarks could be grounds for appeal, she replied, “Oh no, no they didn’t.”

On Monday, Judge Peter Cahill told defense attorney Eric Nelson that the whole trial may be overturned.

“I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned,” Cahill said.

Cahill said it was “disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch” for elected officials to comment on the outcome of the case.

“Their failure to do so, I think, is abhorrent,” he said. “But I don’t think it has prejudiced us with additional material that would prejudice this jury. They have been told not to watch the news. I trust they are following those instructions.”

“We have U.S. representatives threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case, it’s mind boggling,” defense attorney Nelson said to Cahill.

Waters insisted that she was “nonviolent” and dismissed accusations that she had encouraged violence over the weekend while speaking to The Grio on Monday.

“I am nonviolent,” Waters said.

“Republicans will jump on any word, any line and try to make it fit their message and their cause for denouncing us and denying us, basically calling us violent … any time they see an opportunity to seize on a word, so they do it and they send a message to all of the white supremacists, the KKK, the Oath Keepers, the [Proud] Boys and all of that, how this is a time for [Republicans] to raise money on [Democrats’] backs.”

Waters told The Grio she is “not worried that they’re going to continue to distort what I say.”

“This is who they are and this is how they act,” she said. “And I’m not going to be bullied by them.”

“This is a time for [Republicans] to keep telling our constituents that [Democrats] are the enemy and they do that time and time again,” Waters said. “But that does not deter me from speaking truth to power. I am not intimidated. I am not afraid, and I do what needs to be done.”

Waters has been criticized by Republicans, with some calling for her expulsion from Congress.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Waters is a “danger to our society” and organized a petition to expel Waters from her position in Congress, saying that Waters has incited BLM/Antifa violence and riots for years.

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Letter reveals that Brian Laundrie’s mother vowed to help “dispose of body”

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A letter from Brian Laundrie’s mother revealed her willingness to aid her son in hiding his crime. Roberta, Laundries mother, wrote “burn after reading” on the front and was allegedly committed to helping her son dispose of a body.

The letter has now become the epicenter of a civil suit the Petito family has brought against the Laundrie family. The Petitos are suing the Laundries for emotional distress due to the lack of communication with the Petito family when their daughter had gone missing.

The Laundrie family has claimed that the letter is irrelevant to the case because it was given to their son before the tragically fatal disappearance of Petito. On Tuesday during the hearing, Defense Attorney P. Matthew Luka said, “This document pre-dates Brian and Gabby’s trip so its creation really doesn’t have any relation necessarily to the unfortunate events that unfolded thereafter.” He added, “I know that some of the wording that was used in the letter is unfortunate and might suggest that it has some connection but it doesn’t.”

So what does the letter say?

“If you’re in jail I will bake a cake with a file in it. If you need to dispose of a body. I will show up with a shovel and garbage bags,” Roberta wrote to her son in the letter.

According to reports, Roberta said the verbiage she used in the letter, specifically about the disposal of a body, “were common enough in our circle of friends and family to describe who you could turn to in the most troubling times of your life.”

Moreover, one user on Twitter responded to the tweet of the letter, speculating that Roberta’s letter “sounds like a Jocasta complex,” specifically in response to a section of the letter where she wrote, “not even the unthinkable can get between us.”

The Laundrie family continues to claim that they believe they have done everything the correct way and that Gabby Petito’s disappearance was just as much a mystery to them as to the rest of the world. They claim that they had no knowledge of her disappearance and that the letter is purely a coincidence, with no connection to the fatal loss of Gabby Petito. According to reports, the trial will be held in August of this year.

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