A columnist for a leading conservative news website explicitly called for “violence” and “blood in the streets” Friday.
Geoffrey Ingersoll, editor-at-large of the Daily Caller, wrote the jaw-dropping demand in a lengthy column published on the site under the headline, “Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!” It spoke about striking a “fat [B]lack woman,” and using ex-convicts to inflict pain.
The column in the Caller, which was founded by Tucker Carlson and is now part-owned by Donald Trump Jr.’s business partner Omeed Malik, was also blasted to subscribers to its “State of the Day” newsletter.
Ingersoll’s explicit welcoming of violence came after Donald Trump and JD Vance claimed that it was the “radical left” which was responsible for growing political violence—a claim greeted with skepticism but which they have doubled down on.
Ingersoll, formerly editor-in-chief of the site and, like Vance, a one-time Marine public affairs writer, made clear that he was calling for “drubbings,” “cudgels,” and “extra-legal acts of violence”–even though the site later appended an editor’s note claiming his essay referred to “hypothetical instances of self-defense.”
But Ingersoll in fact wrote, “Today, I choose violence. Literally. I know calls for violence are generally frowned upon. The issue is … I simply don’t care.”
In case readers were in doubt, it went on to say, “Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is,” before suggesting that “conservatives” could not rely on police or prosecutors so should “bring security with you that’s dying to dole out drubbings.”
Ingersoll invoked some recent incidents in which conservative activists have faced aggressive responses in the streets, such as an April incident in which pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao was slapped in the head while doing an on-the-street interview about abortion in Harlem, New York. He described the attacker as “a fat [B]lack lady,” and “a brutish, hulking woman.”
That appeared hard to square with Ingersoll’s column.
“So some activist takes the sign next to your table at a public debate…?” he wrote. “She gets instantly clotheslined. I don’t care if police are present. Do it anyway. In fact, be wildly disproportionate.”
He added, “We must stop clutching our principles and shouting “stop.” They own the legal system. That will achieve nothing. We need action. Disproportionate. Violent. Action.”
“The time to go as lambs to the slaughter is OVER,” he wrote.
Ingersoll was an enlisted Marine who served in public affairs, not combat, in Iraq, then went to New York University to study journalism, claiming in his online biography that he discovered Manhattan’s Greenwich Village was “more dangerous than Baghdad.” He now lives in an upscale suburb of Washington D.C. He had a brief mainstream media career at Business Insider and Marine Corps Times before becoming part of the Daily Caller for the last decade.
“They better not get them energized because it won’t be good for the left,” he said.
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