Posted on 01/08/2021 4:42:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States’ stark racial inequality was on display after a mob of predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol with ease on Wednesday then left with few immediate consequences, according to Washington residents, activists and politicians, including President-elect Joe Biden.
The lack of security and limited police response, despite weeks of promotion of the pro-Trump protest that sparked the riot, was in sharp contrast to the largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests in Washington six months ago.
“My mom said if you did this you’d be shot,” Beatrice Mando, who works for the district and attended BLM protests last year. “She is right. There would be hundreds dead, if not more, had this group been Black.”
In a speech on Thursday, Biden agreed there was a sharp contrast.
“No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently from the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol,” he said.
“It felt like abuse to see not just white privilege but white supremacy in action,” said Makia Green, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Washington. “To see the bias from the government, from the police.”
KIPP DC Public Schools, a group of local charter schools, canceled classes on Thursday, citing the feelings of its mostly Black student body after the riot.
“We are disgusted when we think about the contrast between how our country is responding to this act of domestic terrorism vs the peaceful protests of this past summer,” it said in a statement. Charles McKinney, associate professor of history.
“The response from law enforcement was a blatant display of systemic racism. It was a display of white privilege, the disparities in policing in this country,” he said.
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The rioters were ANTIFA.
How many BLM/Antifa goons were killed when they ran amok in DC last summer and threatened to overrun the White House? As I recall, the DC mayor did little, and all the usual suspects jumped on Donald Trump when he called the National Guard to DC.
Enough! I have had it with this line.
No, because the Capitol Police would have been told to stand down.
the article has a point- look at the hundreds of black rioters over the summer who were killed... /sarc
And BLM.
Some of them were. Not all of them though. But so what? I am glad the left is now afraid of us
More outlandish absolutely BS garbage claims and assertions......
I guess he missed what his “kind” have been doing all summer in cities while the cops let em take all the Nikes and Air Jordans they wanted. And white people actually pay money to go watch this guy who hates them. Fools.
Yeah - remember when they did that with the Black Panthers?
Remember when they opened fire on all the BLM rioters tearing down statues, burning buildings all summer?
No?
Yeah- this is racist bs.
Al Reuters
If they were Black the DC police would
Take a knee.
Wash their feet.
And kiss their Ass.....
And since it didn’t happen, this lie can’t be disproved.
“The lack of security and limited police response, despite weeks of promotion of the pro-Trump protest that sparked the riot, was in sharp contrast to the largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests in Washington six months ago. “
Maybe prior violence, vandalism and looting in the past had something to do with the response 6 months ago. Ever think of that?
Reuters is toxic media.
Well said.
“How many BLM/Antifa goons were killed when they ran amok in DC last summer”
Has any of them been killed by police anywhere this year? I don’t remember any. Maga 1 Antifa 0.
My once-every-six years Conservative Senator Goober Grahmnesty was on the radio saying the FBI would be investigating every “violent” person who entered the people’s Capitol building, and offering more money and people to accomplish that.
TO Senator Goob and FBI agents assigned to monitor FreeRepublic: let me make it easy for you by confessing:
I, Hunter S. Biden, accessed government property in DC on 1/6/21 without legal access approval. Please investigate me, along with those who were with me and also committed similar crimes. They were Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and Peter Strozk, These folks will be able to identify additional co-conspirators.
I feel much better now that the investigation of me is in full motion!
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