Tom Cotton Urges Americans To Confront Pro-Palestinian Protesters Blocking Traffic

"They should get out and move those people off the streets," the Republican senator said.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Tuesday yet again encouraged Americans who experience closed roads and heavy traffic due to protests about the Israel-Hamas war in several cities across the country to take matters into their own hands.

In an interview with NBC News, the Republican senator labeled those who take to the streets to express their opposition to Israel’s handling of the conflict that has so far killed at least 33,800 Palestinians, as “pro-Hamas vigilantes.”

“Absolutely, I support people, if they’re blocked by traffic, by pro-Hamas vigilantes in the street, they should get out of their cars, they should move them to the side of the road, and they should let traffic continue,” Cotton said.

Cotton, however, claimed he wasn’t advocating for violence.

“I’m saying that if people are trying to get to work or pick up their kids from school or take a sick kid to the doctor and you have pro-Hamas vigilantes blocking the streets,” he told the network, “they should get out and move those people off the streets.”