Van Jones: A law and order candidacy must condemn vigilante justice

In light of the shooting of Jacob Blake and subsequent violent unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, CNN's Van Jones speaks out ahead of the third night of the Republican National Convention. He argues that a candidacy that says it's about law and order cannot back be silent on hate groups and vigilantes. #CNN #News

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  1. Rick Santorum never disappoints me with his talk. He’s like that pesky mosquito that constantly flies around your ear.

    1. vman armand lmao, yesterday I saw CNN clip with title “violent protestors” get edited during the broadcast to read “protestors”
      How Fake News is that. OMG

    1. @David Cook they should hire even more cops and get all these drug dealers and gang bangers locked up along with all the rioters and looters. -TRUMP2020

    2. @COLONEL ANGUS think about this, the police get the majority of money in most city budgets already, it’s more about how cops are trained not how many their are, also your right rioters and looters should be held accountable for the damage they cause, but don’t lump them into the same category as peaceful protesters, big difference between the two, and if you really want to think about something, simply consider who benefits the most from rioting and looting?

    3. @David Cook the riots and looting started out as peaceful protest. BLM and antifa are not peaceful groups period. They are far left radicals who have become the very thing they are supposed to be fighting.

    4. @David Cook you’re not going to lie! YOU HAVE IDIOTS ON YOUR SIDE SAYING “WE MUST DISBAND AND DISSOLVE THE POLICE COMPLETELY”!! So quit with the lies and just ACCEPT that you LEFTISTS are the TRUE problem!

  2. “Having an RNC in the midst of all this” so I guess the Portland thing has been going on for months in a parallel universe then.

    1. @Mark Reed Biden is to afraid to do the Presidential debate. He doesn’t know where he is half time and he is a racist.
      Kamala Harris is a descendant of Hamilton Brown. Who was one of the biggest slave owners of Jamaica.

    2. @Ryan C The VP debate will happen, but Biden will either be ill and no show, or ill and need to do a Zoom call.

    3. @Mark Reed Kamala Harris descendant of Hamilton Brown. Who was one of the biggest slave owners of Jamaica.
      Plus her horrible record as Attorney General in California .
      Plus she could not get many donations when she was try run for President.
      Plus people call her African American.
      But she isn’t at all. Her father is Jamaican and her mother is from India.

  3. Jones, the so called protesters broke & tore down the security gate into their neighborhood but you call them peaceful protesters? CNN propaganda.

    1. Mike McGlock It was much more than that if security wasn’t there to protect them. The Democratic Party is gone! I wished more democratic politicians would call them out. I can’t see how I can vote for anarchy lawlessness.

    2. lily boone and BLM rioters murdered David Dorn after they broke down the door to the business Mr Dorn was trying to protect. David Dorn was murdered not far from the couple’s home.

  4. I never cared:
    -I never cared if you were “gay“ until you started shoving it in my face, and the faces of our children.
    -I never cared what color you were, until you started blaming my race for your problems.
    -I never cared about your political affiliation until you started to condemn me for mine.
    -I never cared where you were born until you wanted to erase my history and blame my ancestors for your current problems.
    -I never cared if you were well-off or poor, until you said you were discriminated against, when I was promoted because I worked hard.
    -I never cared if your beliefs were different from mine, until you said my beliefs were wrong.
    Now I care!
    My patience and tolerance are gone.
    I’m not alone in feeling this way there are millions of us who do……and we have had enough!!

    1. @McArthur lord Jesus please give these money hungry everybody is bad except trump racist some compassion they have caused racism and havoc for centuries then make excuses like they won’t be judged on judgement day

  5. I love how CNN says nothing about local leadership in these cities that are governed by Democrats. Once people start protecting themselves and a couple of these rioters get shot, they finally say something. They said nothing about the innocent people who have been killed, beaten, robbed, had their businesses and livelihoods destroyed. Don Lemon said the quiet part out loud by saying that Joe Biden should say some because it is affecting his polling numbers. That notion tells you how evil CNN is.

    1. @John Dobbins Wisconsin? Not hardly. Mayor of Kenosha and Governor of Wisconsin are both Democrats. ALL of the governments where this rioting is taking place are governed by Democrats. Time to get a clue guy.

    2. @B dub The clue is the Federal Government is “led” (but not really, he does nothing except stoke division which is causing these problems) by a Republican’t. It’s NOT a R vs D issue anyway, it’s a human rights issue, but you’re one of the ones who needs to get a clue.

    3. @SkyQuest2K8 are you seriously trying to say that the side of Marxists are for human rights?! Hahahahahaha! You clowns infringe on constitutional rights constantly, and you confuse entitlements with rights. Get a clue!

    1. John Doe , Very much so.🤙🏿. “Russia collusion” sham, Ukraine ( actual quid pro quo Joe Biden) smear & other Democrat “cloud” shams, distracted. Phony media =👺🤮.

    2. Rache; Meatte it’s good to try getting news from both sides of the spectrum eh. Sometimes (CNN) it isn’t real news, but the thought is still there.

    3. @MJB For Trump Thump-em’s PROPAGANDA is stirring discontent among the people. Get it right! He loves the chaos.

    4. Lana Kahl that’s really weird if you are telling the truth, I also listened to nearly all of it each day, and I heard the opposite. Message of hope.

  6. Too late CNN, keep digging, keep back pedaling all you want. History will look back at the 2020 Riots and realise the Industrial Media Complex fanned the flames and encouraged mob mentality to a confused and vindictiv youth. I guess you guys finally paid attention to those polls you guys keep talking about, and wait!!! what’s this? Regular Americans are, and have been fed up with Riots for a while now?, and don’t see the justification by burning and tearing down society? Oh Darn!! ok let’s exploit the parents and tell them that we told them to say that burning small businesses, (many of them black) is bad. You know for a network that spends all its resources trashing a president, they sure had a hand in helping reelect him. Could it be possible that it’s on purpose? The Trump bump is real, and they’re making a lot of money off of Trump.

    1. I’m sure the things that are going on while Trump is president will stop if Trump continues to be president. Very ironic that you use the phrase “fanned the flames” defending Trump. lol

    2. @J Warfield please name the policies enacted within Trumps first term that you disagree with. I am interested, please be specific.

  7. CNN trying to condemn the rioters they previously supported. Too late guys, you helped make Dems the party of rioters and looters 😎.

    1. A “mob” who doesn’t even know him and have a reason to kill him…..you and that kid are cowards🚶🏽‍♂️

    2. He had no reason to use lethal force, thus he will deserve the two life prison terms he receives. He was illegally carrying at age 17, and shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Kenosha’s support of anarchist, unauthorized, and untrained militias should cost them millions in the wrong death lawsuits, and the boy and his parents also. No moral justification there whatsoever.

    1. @Prophecy & Revelations Mao, Hitler, etc. were highly intelligent people with great speaking skill. As you see, it does not mean an automatic greatness.
      Plus, I’m sure you have seen Obama speak without a teleprompter, its day and night.
      But its politics and people only goes for the prepared speeches with background music, applause and special effect.

    2. @Beautiful Soul , I support Trumps policy, that is it and nothing more.
      Country over Party? Let me guess, you voted for the cellphone smasher, correct?

    3. Former NFL player Jack Brewer’s 2020 Republican National Convention Speech | FULL
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWax4cTeEx0
      Herschel Walker at GOP convention: Trump is not a racist
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzg6iGhzVY
      What The Left Won’t Tell You About The Plight Of Black People And The Myth Of Systemic Racism
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5gWnuqkVI
      The historic truth of the democrat and republican parties:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_a7dQXilCo
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OURy5WFp0zk
      #BLEXIT
      #WalkAway

  8. Are home owners supposed to pretend that “peaceful protests” turn on a dime to looting, burning, and physical assault?

    1. @DJ 3nzym3 the cares act was the largest upward transfer of wealth at $4.2 trillion in world history and both parties voted it in.

      So while I agree Trump is not a fiscal conservative you have a better chance of dragging a semi up Everest with your dong then convincing me that the other party also complicit in record spending will some turn that around. Especially since a reduction in spending is not the platform Biden is running on either.

      They also bipartisanly voted in an annual $754 billion dollar increase to military spending earlier this year.

    2. @Baron Vonsnazzy Yeah I do agree, that as a libertarian, Trump is still spending a lot, but not compared to what the left wants to spend.

    1. they did say lawless protesters to… stop tryna Nick pick on one thing. thats the issue with you right wing Trumptards

    1. Yes he was and while he probably shouldn’t have involved himself in the situation the videographic evidence clearly showed he was ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIED UNDER WISCONSIN STATE LAW’s self defense statutes. In fact all the metric which make a self defense claim lawful was exceed numerous times over.

      The fact that a state government and a billion dollar media empire along partisan lines obfuscate easily searchable videographic evidence is evil.

      I voted for Barack Obama twice and Hilary Clinton last time, this was the straw that broke the camels back, I’m voting for Trump

    2. @Baron Vonsnazzy Absolutely and isn’t it funny how they assume hes a member of a hate group for protecting his life?

  9. Biden ALWAYS makes racist remarks going back 40 years from his comments regarding segregation, busing, didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle” about Obama, “You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate,” “Put y”all back in chains” and more recently “Poor Kids are just as smart as white kids,” “if you don’t vote for me you ain’t black,” and now “Unlike the Black community, with notable exceptions the Hispanic community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things.” Trump has never said anything close to that. How can any liberal honestly vote Joe Biden with their conscience? KAMALA Harris
    Her mother is Indian and her father is a half black and half white Jamaican whose family owned slaves. At 29 she had sex w/ married Mayor Willie Brown who was twice her age at 60 and then became a DA then an AG. Tulsi explained in the primaries how Harris was responsible for locking up innocent people not allowing for exculpatory DNA evidence and keeping blacks locked up for marijuana offenses. Harris then claimed to be Indian when running for Senator and now claims to be Black. She attacked Joe Biden for his racist views on segregation and said she believed his accusers who claimed he sexually harassed them. Now she is his running mate. PHONY KAMALA! Here is what else you need to know:!https://youtu.be/ONcMiNch_RE

    1. HH 4Lyfe Nope. U have no real proof Trump is a racist. All u have is bits taken out of context. We have real proof on Biden. U can watch a video of a speech he gave where he said a man who was once a cyclops of the KKK was his “friend, mentor, and guide.” What more proof do u need? So who is really the liar here?

    2. Well said! The bussing issue is what surprised me the most. Imagine if Trump was even rumored to have said that😑😑😑

  10. Just so you all know the video of the “Vigilante Justice” he’s talking about proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the 17 year old who shot the *SEX OFFENDER* who was chasing him was completely justified.

    No he is not a member of a hate group. CNN never asks if a Block shooter is a member of a gang even when they clearly are. There is no basis for speculating that the teen was in a hate group. No hate group tattoos. The ppl he shot in total *Self Defense* as he was running from a mob of ppl trying to harm him were other white ppl.

    It’s incredibly disgusting that Jones would sit here and intentionally misrepresent the facts of that incident.

    The solution is simple. Police should have been posted in front of those businesses to prevent looting and burning. If police did that Kyle never would’ve been out there peacefully guarding that business.

  11. How about we condemn the “vigilantes” when they condemn the “peaceful protester” setting things on fire. You can’t have one without the other.

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