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Kentucky lockdown protesters condemned for hanging effigy of governor from tree

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Kentucky lockdown protesters condemned for hanging effigy of governor from tree | US news | The Guardian

Kentucky lockdown protesters condemned for hanging effigy of governor from tree

Incident at conservative rally draws backlash from Democrats and Republicans


Political leaders in Kentucky have condemned rightwing protesters against the state’s measures to fight the coronavirus, after the demonstrators hanged an effigy of Democratic state governor Andy Beshear from a tree. The incident happened on Sunday during a protest in favor of gun rights and other mostly conservative causes. Several men produced a rope and an effigy and strung it from a tree outside the state capitol building in Frankfort.

The state representative Charles Booker, who is African American and the Democratic party challenger for the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s seat in Kentucky in November, described the representation as “ vile and traumatic”.
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I don't know any admitted conservatives, or rightwingers, and I'm glad I don't. Hanging someone in effigy might be considered a hate crime, especially with guns included in the mix.

What do guns have to do with a pandemic lockdown?
 
"Cause this is 'Merica!"

FFS, the world is laughing at us.
 
"Cause this is 'Merica!"

FFS, the world is laughing at us.

True, but that's the least of our problems. Hopefully there will be a huge backlash against this sort of hateful behavior, but I'm not betting on it.
 
True, but that's the least of our problems. Hopefully there will be a huge backlash against this sort of hateful behavior, but I'm not betting on it.

I doubt it as well.

There is a subtle irony to what these right wing protesters are asking for in comparison to other issues.
 
Ahh, the Quixote-tarians.

They ain't gonna do ****.
 
May fringe politics forever guide these two parties into a deeper and deeper divide.
 
We do it for 'murika.
 
I doubt it as well.

There is a subtle irony to what these right wing protesters are asking for in comparison to other issues.

Also a large dose of nihilism.
 
Also a large dose of nihilism.

I would not go that far, they believe in something... it just makes little sense in today's world.
 
The man who hung Andy Beshear in effigy on Sunday was fired from his job today. Good.
 
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