Maxine Waters: I Shouted ‘If You Shoot Me, You Better Shoot Straight’ at the National Guardsmen Because I Felt It Would Be Helpful and Instructive

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WATERS: "But what I was really trying to do was to get, you know, the attention to the seriousness of what was going on. And so I thought, as an elected official, if I talk about so that it would be in earshot of all the media and everybody else who's there and people who were listening, that we were raising concerns about armed guards being in Los Angeles and what they are ordered to do. And so it was one of those moments where, you know, I talked about, you know, I‘m an elected official in so many words. 'Oh, are you going to shoot me too?' And so it‘s one of those things where you‘re trying to create the proper communication to let everybody know that this is an unusual and dangerous situation. And we‘re hopeful that Trump is paying attention and that he‘ll change his mind about what he‘s doing. So, it‘s the kind of talk that you start hoping that it will be helpful and instructive in some way."