Twitter users jumped to denounce a tweet expressing solidarity with Republicans in light of the Wednesday attack on a congressional baseball practice that left multiple people on the field injured.
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor, tweeted out a message of support after reported gunman James T. Hodgkinson shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and other staffers at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Congressional Baseball Shooter Dies At Hospital)
“We are #AllRepublicansToday. So incredibly sad,” Lessig wrote.
We are #AllRepublicansToday. So incredibly sad.
— Lessig (@lessig) June 14, 2017
Various activists and leaders were quick to renounce the idea of being linked with Republicans, declaring “no we aren’t” in subsequent re-tweets of Lessig’s message.
not I said this black man. https://t.co/wa4zI0gaPp
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 15, 2017
“Not I said this black man,” Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson tweeted.
We are #AllRepublicansToday .
Me: pic.twitter.com/eFIU3fTtR8
— George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) June 14, 2017
Are republicans still collaborators in a foreign coup against our democracy? Yes?
Then no, we aren’t.
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) June 14, 2017
“Are republicans still collaborators in a foreign coup against our democracy?” Patrick S. Tomlinson, a contributor to the Hill and The New York Times, tweeted. “Yes? Then no, we aren’t.”
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