Young conservative women who went viral for standing up to mob say they've received death threats
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Savanah Hernandez, who was targeted by Black Lives Matter protesters when she showed up to a rally with a sign that read “Police Lives Matter,” told “The Ingraham Angle” on Monday that she was “viciously attacked” and has “gotten death threats from people on the left” because they don’t like her message.
On Monday, Hernandez tweeted a picture of herself at the rally in Texas and wrote, “I get a lot of hate for the sign, but imagine being the person whose actually in the uniform. Thank you to the police who care about keeping our communities safe. #PoliceLivesMatter.”
“I was watching so many videos on Twitter of police officers, especially black police officers who’ve been the subject of so much racism because of the radical left and everything that has been going on and it really enraged me so I wanted to go stand up with a Police Lives Matter sign,” Hernandez explained.
She noted that on the other side of the sign she wrote the name of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, who was shot and killed by a looter during protests over the death of George Floyd.
“I went and I stood there, I didn’t chant, I didn’t go infiltrate their rally at all,” Hernandez said. “I stood on a busy street corner and I held up my sign because I wanted police in my city to know that they were supported and I was immediately attacked.”
She said that one BLM supporter actually “supported my First Amendment right, which is not something that we typically see, so I was very appreciative of that.”
“But it’s ridiculous that I can’t go stand up with a sign on my own street, in my own city without being attacked, viciously attacked, several times,” Hernandez continued.
She noted that since the rally she has received death threats from people on the left, which she said “only emboldens me more to stand up for our police who protect our communities every single day.”
Host Laura Ingraham asked Hernandez what is her message to young women who are conservative like her and are “tired of being pushed around.”
“I am not a spectacular human being, I’m a regular girl … If I can stand up and make big waves ... (Read more)
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