Not to be outdone Nancy Pelosi blurted out this :
Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice.
Thankfully it did not take long for bi-partisan condemnation of such a stupid statement.
Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for being murdered," Huffington Post editor Philip Lewis summed up.
What in the actual f," New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz reacted.
Ummm... he didn’t sacrifice his life... he was brutally, horrifically murdered. What the hell is this," Guardian writer Hannah Parkinson tweeted.
Sacrifice implies he had a choice," LA Times reporter Melissa Evans similarly wrote.
Oh, that is very bad. Very, very no," GQ correspondent Julia Ioffe expressed.
real [W]hite person wearing kente cloth energy on this quote," progressive commentator Hasan Piker wrote.
I didn’t expect Pelosi to have one of the worst takes, but here we are," YouTube host Farron Cousins concluded.
I don't expect anything less of Nancy Pelosi. Racism is and has always been a spectrum," author Frederick Joseph wrote.
This type of lunacy is what happens when you view people as nothing but pawns for your cause," journalist Annika Rothstein said.