Democrat Bennie Thompson: Terrorist Murder of National Guardsman in DC Was ‘Unfortunate Accident’

Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) sparked immediate backlash on Thursday after referring to the November 26 murder of a National Guardsman as an “unfortunate accident” during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, a remark Republicans blasted as disrespectful and dangerously minimizing the nature of the terrorist attack.