Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, has recently made headlines for comments suggesting opposition to President Trump's agenda, leading to discussions on social media about incitement and political strategy. Jeffries' statement about fighting Trump's agenda "in the streets" has been interpreted by some as a call to violence.
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3.00@JeffBerman My plain reading of the title and description seems to indicate that self-immolation would count. Am I reading that right?
Not something I had thought about, but if it’s related to protesting Trump, and someone dies, then that would resolve YES.
@JeffBerman Do you require the event to be in the United States? Or just in "the streets"?
Another excellent question I hadn’t considered. If the protest is clearly over Trump, then I suppose we’d have to include it. I’m open to discussion on whether we should include a death outside the United States.
On the subject of self-immolation, I'll leave this here for everybody's future reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations?wprov=sfla1