CNN anchor Don Lemon said on Monday that Rep. Maxine Waters wasn’t calling for violence in calling on demonstrators to get “confrontational” if ex-officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted over the death of George Floyd.

Lemon said in a Monday interview with Wolf Blitzer that her comments were not “constructive” but also pushed back on some of the criticism that the California Democrat is now facing.

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