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Brandon Williams: “This is vandalism. If you want to bring your own flag and…”

Featuring: Brandon Williams, Republican | Former U.S. House, New York, District 22

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Violent protests will stop 'when America decides to defend itself': Rep. Williams | Wake Up America

Published | Video Starts at 03:41

By the way, not all speech is protected. Right. I certainly support free speech and the protection of speech, but violent speech is not, as you pointed out. This is vandalism. If you want to bring your own flag and burn them, you're entitled to do that, but you can't tear down government property, deface government property, and, and destroy government property. And that's what happened. And it should be met with that kind of force and make this nonsense stop. This is. (03:41–03:53)

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Asserts that tearing down, defacing, and destroying government property is vandalism.

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