There are calls in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination for people to turn down the rhetoric, but there are others who aren't hearing the call and one example might be Texas-based US Representative Jasmine Crockett.
Appearing on MSNBC, Ms. Crockett stated that modern Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are an outgrowth of the slave patrols that kept slaves in line as long as 300 years ago.
"But as somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols. Now I never lived through the slave patrol period, if you know the history of policing in this country, they were born out of slave patrols," she said.
Such talk could be see as heated and subversive rhetoric, though, and onetime Texas Senator Don Huffines says it's not only divisive but a threat.
"Representative Crockett should be arrested for inciting violence against legitimate law enforcement officers like ICE, they're enforcing the law," Huffines, who's running for state comptroller, said Monday in response.
"It's this rhetoric that directly leads to violence."