State: Lawmaker advocated burning Black Lives Matter houses

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Associated Press

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A legislator accused of making a Facebook post that advocated burning and looting houses displaying Black Lives Matter signs is being investigated by the state attorney general and facing calls to resign.

“Public Service Announcement: If you see a BLM sign on a lawn, it’s the same as having a porch light on at Halloween. You are free to burn and loot that house,” New Hampshire Rep. James Spillane, a Republican, posted recently, according to an image the state attorney general’s office provided in a letter to House Speaker Steve Shurtleff that was also given to news organizations.

The Facebook post now appears to have been deleted.

Sean Locke, of the attorney general’s office civil rights unit, said his office received complaints about the post. In his letter to Shurtleff, dated Thursday, Locke wrote that “members of the public who support the Black Lives Matter movement have expressed fear that they may become targets of violence as the result of Rep. Spillane’s post.”

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Jeezus, my whole neighborhood would be burned down -

including my house. WTF is wrong with some of these people?

[Demovictory9]

2. ugly comment

[not_the_one]

7. No amount of lipstick can cover THIS amount of ugly.

His core doesn't give a shit. They are with him to the end.

But the coat tail riders, the middle of the road fence straddlers who just HATED HILLARY, are beginning to have buyers remorse. Those delicate little flowers are beginning to find the "stink" overwhelming.

Hopefully they will seek redemption, or just sit their ass at home.

[Alex4Martinez]

3. here it is:

[lame54]

10. Quick - put a BLM sign in his yard

[2naSalit]

11. +1

[Solly Mack]

4. They burn and loot houses on Halloween in NH? Who knew?

[2naSalit]

12. Wasn't part of the festivities when I was a kid there...

Must be something new.

[Solly Mack]

15. You couldn't pay me to live inside the minds of some.

Republicans can tell some truly idiotic lies when they're trying to attack people.

[2naSalit]

16. That's a certainty.

I have heard some wild stuff in my days of politicking but these guys are like everything all at once.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

5. What is wrong with these people

oh nothing, it's all good cause trump is their leader

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6. And they complain about burning and looting at protests, so we...

can guess who's burning and looting at protests. It sure isn't the BLM marchers.

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[SharonClark]

8. He sounds like the Mafia.

[lame54]

9. Does he even get Halloween?

[2naSalit]

18. Apparently not.

But then, there were vandals so they must have been the vandal because we kids didn't burn houses down for Halloween.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Jewish houses in Germany in the 1930s?

Jewish houses in Germany in the 1930s?

Is that where he go the idea?

[struggle4progress]

14. Is there a proper way to do this? Soak Spillane in gas, set him afire, and toss him thru the window?

[dalton99a]

19. James Spillane

Spillane was convicted of DUI and reckless conduct in 2010 and for driving with an open container in 2018.

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20. From his complexion, he looks like an alcoholic with a spray tan.