Ted Cruz said his Nike boycott was exerting free speech, but people boycotting Goya Foods are silencing speech
Chris Hayes interviews U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at The Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. On Thursday, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue praised president Donald Trump in a ceremony at The White House. Free speech works both ways. And now the Left is trying to cancel Hispanic culture and silence free speech, Cruz tweeted on Friday. I respect Free Speech & Im exerting mine: until @Nike ends its contempt for those values, I WILL NO LONGER PURCHASE NIKE PRODUCTS.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz calls George Floyd case "clearly police brutality"
WASHINGTON Chris Hayes interviews U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at The Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Bob Daemmrich for The Texas TribuneU.S. Sen. Ted Cruz this weekend said the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis black man, is "clearly police brutality." "It's horrific, and it starts with a horrific act of police brutality," the state's junior GOP senator said on Fox News on Sunday evening. And there is an immediate demonization and attack of the police officers, and I think that's wrong, and I think it's premature." "It was clearly police brutality and it was not conduct we expect of any officer.