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- Egged on by Donald Trump, MAGA protestors infiltrated the Capitol Building.
- Members of Congress were meeting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
- The protestors appeared to encounter very little resistance from police–a sharp contrast from the aggressive, violent tactics of law enforcement during the Black Lives Matter protests.
Donald Trump is not going quietly. Egged on by Trump, protestors have stormed the Capitol Building and engaged in armed standoffs with police. They’ve broken into a government building and somehow experienced far less resistance than Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors experienced for peacefully protesting outside.
Photo of the armed standoff in the Capitol Building. | Source: Twitter
How Donald Trump Started the Protests
If you haven’t been tuning in, this is far from the first time Trump has incited people to engage in potentially violent acts. But now that the heat has been turned up. As members of congress were meeting to officially certify Joe Biden’s presidential victory, Trump pulled out the stops.
Trump spent the last 24 hours hiking up the urgency of his election fraud campaign.
Twitter has been flagging many of Trump’s tweets. | Source: Twitter
But before that, Trump has been riling up his following. Check out this call for action that he retweeted days ago:
Trump gets his people thinking. | Source: Twitter
Trump’s fellow Republicans have begun to denounce him more vocally. According to The New York Times, Mitt Romney said,
This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection.
Mike Pence Is Evacuated
After Vice President Mike Pence rejected Trump’s calls to overturn the election earlier today, Trump turned on him. He tweeted that “Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country.”
Trump throws Mike Pence under the bus. | Source: Twitter
Mike Pence had to be evacuated from the Capitol.
Why Aren’t the Police Responding Like They Did With Black Lives Matter?
We’ve all seen the hundreds of videos released during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. Peaceful protestors were beaten, bruised, and bloodied. There videos of police ramming people with their vehicles and assaulting elderly, innocent bystanders. They even attacked journalists.
Check out this video of the violent police:
For what? Waving a sign?
Sure, some protestors were rioting and looting, but no one was upset about the response against those people.
These MAGA protestors broke through the Capitol building. They unlawfully infiltrated government property. According to CNN, a woman is in critical condition after being shot on Capitol grounds.
Protestors unlawfully infiltrate government property. | Source: Twitter
Why aren’t the police responding? Why aren’t they prepared like they were for Black Lives Matter? Why weren’t they lined up on Capitol grounds, looking like this:
The police were not okay with peaceful protests but seemed to be fine with breaking and entering. | Source: Twitter
They’ve had ample time to prepare. Trump has been talking about January 6th since 2020:
Everyone knew what might happen, but why weren’t the police prepared? | Source: Twitter
And yet, protestors just seemed to waltz right into the Capitol Building with no signs of tear gas, or batons, or rubber bullets. The only sign of force came during the armed standoff when protestors had already had their way with the Capitol building.
It’s just more sad evidence that reveals the type of country we’ve become.
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Samburaj Das edited this article for CCN.com – Capital & Celeb News. If you see a breach of our Code of Ethics or find a factual, spelling, or grammar error, please contact us.
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