Senator Mitch McConnell condemns Sunday’s effigy of Governor Beshear

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed outrage after someone hung an effigy of Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear outside the Governor’s Mansion Sunday.

The protest was advertised as a ‘Patriot Day’ rally to exercise second amendment rights but eventually turned into a protest of the COVID-19 restrictions ordered by Beshear.

At the protests, an effigy with the governor’s face on it was hung from a tree.

Beshear addressing the effigy, said he would not back down, and he owes it to the people of Kentucky not to bow to terror, also implying politicians who had previously rallied with the protesters were partially responsible.

At a press conference, McConnell was asked about his thoughts on who is responsible for those actions.

“Well I think the people who bear responsibility for it are the people who did it. Completely and totally unacceptable, outrageous, and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. But nobody is responsible for it other than those who did it,” said McConnell.

The dummy hung from the tree, including a sign reading ‘sic semper tyrannis,” which Beshear later said was the same thing President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, shouted after assassinating Lincoln.

The Latin phrase means “thus always to tyrants.”