I'd say the same thing, but you would defend our players much more than I would, wanna bet ?
A statement, irrespective of how careless + emotional + wrongly timed + misinterpretable, doesn't incite violence, misguided personalities with an absence of values do. Avoiding these statements, that IMO were no justifications of violence but of frustration, won't make these people better people. They're completely fucked-up in the head + very very likely can't be educated/changed anymore. You could preach violence to me day + night + at best I'd flip you the bird