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Experts and activists denounce comparison between Capitol siege and BLM protests

Experts and activists denounce comparison between Capitol siege and BLM protests
REPORTER: AS A MOB OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS STORM THE U.S. CAPITOL YESTERDAY, BREAKING PAST LAW ENFORCEMENT AND REACHING THE U.S. SENATE, SACRAMENTO SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST LEAH SHANE WAS ARREST DURING A FAR LESS VOLATILE PROTEST AT THE STATE CAPITAL. THAT MOMENT CAPTURED ON CAMERA. >> RACE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS GOING ON. REPORTER: SACRAMENTO POLICE SAY OFFICERS SAW HER SHAKING A CAN OF PEPPER SPRAY, LATER LETTING HER GO. THIS, SHE SAYS, IS THE FIRST TIME SHE바카라 게임 웹사이트S EVER BEEN ARRESTED AFTER DECADES OF DEMONSTRATING. HE DETAINMENT HAPPENING ON THE SAME DAY THAT THIS CROWD BREACHED THE U.S. CAPITOL. >> IF BLACK PEOPLE WERE TO GO OUT THERE AND DO WHAT THOSE WHITE PEOPLE DID YESTERDAY, WE WOULD BE DEAD IN THE STREETS. THEY WOULD BE SHOOTING US DEAD WITH INTENT TO KILL LESS. REPORTER: A SACRAMENTO ACTIVIST AGREES. >> WE ARE CLEARLY SEEING SYSTEM RACISM AND WHENEVER IT IS SOMEONE OF COLOR, WE ARE TREATED VERY DIFFERENTLY. REPORTER: SAN FRANCISCO바카라 게임 웹사이트S POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY DIRECTOR SAYS THE NUMBERS SHOW THE RACIAL DOUBLE STANDARD. ABOUT 90 ARRESTS YESTERDAY VERSUS 14,000 DURING LAST SUMMER바카라 게임 웹사이트S BLM PROTESTS. >> I SAW T ASSAULT ON OUR NATION바카라 게임 웹사이트S CAPITAL. INSTEAD OF SEEING DOGS SHIELDS OR, WHERE IS THAT MILITARIZED EQUIPMENT THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT HAD? INSTEAD I SAW GATES BEI MOVED, SELFIES BEING TAKEN. REPORTER: A FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AGREES. >> BLACK M AND WOMEN PEACEFULLY PROTESTING RACIAL INJUSTICE ARE MET WITH ARMED MILITARIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT. THAT STANDS IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE MOB OF WHITE INSURRECTIONIST TRADERS BRINGING SHAME TO OUR GREAT DEMOCRACY. REPORTER: NOW THESE BLACK LEADERS CALLING FO EQUALITY, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO ACT ON THE EXECUTI ORDER PRESIDENT TRUMP PAST LAST SUMMER THREATENING ANYONE WHO DESECRATES FEDERAL PROPERTY WITH UP TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON. THIS IS THE TEST. YOU JUST GOT IT SERVED TO YOU ON A PLATTER. WHAT WE DO DEFINES US AS A NATION AS HOW WE WILL APPROACH JUSTICE AND HOW WE WILL REFORM OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM. REPORTER IN SACRAMENTO, MARLEY MARTINEZ. BRIAN: THOSE LEADERS JUST HELD A TOWN HALL THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT FOSTERING TRUST WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. THEY SAY PAUL HE
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Experts and activists denounce comparison between Capitol siege and BLM protests
Related video above: U.S. Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri speaks about U.S. Capitol breachBlack activists are coming out strongly against a growing narrative among conservatives that equates the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol with last summer's Black Lives Matter protests of racial injustice.Republican lawmakers defending President Donald Trump made the comparison again Wednesday while building their case against impeachment and accused Democrats of being hypocrites with selective outrage. Their comments mark the latest effort by Trump and the GOP to misrepresent the Black Lives Matter movement as an extremist, violent faction tied to anarchists.바카라 게임 웹사이트You can moan and groan, but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace than some of the BLM and left-wing rioters were this summer when we saw violence sweep across this nation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said in defending Trump before the House voted 232-197 to impeach the president for inciting an insurrection.But the two events were fundamentally different. One was an intentional, direct attack on a hallowed democratic institution, with the goal of overturning a fair and free election. The other was a coast-to-coast protest movement demanding an end to systemic racism that occasionally, but not frequently, turned violent.바카라 게임 웹사이트The GOP has become the party of false equivalences,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said James Jones, assistant professor of African American studies and sociology at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.Many BLM protestors were responding to the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man who was seen on video gasping for breath as a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd바카라 게임 웹사이트s neck. 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Much of the violence came from provoked and unprovoked confrontations with police, during city-imposed curfews and after peaceful demonstrators had gone home. An analysis of more than 7,750 demonstrations in 2,400 locations across the country found that 93% happened with no violence, according to the US Crisis Monitor, a joint effort by Princeton University and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.The mob at the Capitol smashed its way into the heart of the federal government, seeking to interrupt constitutionally mandated proceedings to affirm President-elect Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s victory. 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A review by The Associated Press found many were young suburban adults with no previous run-ins with the law or ties to antifa.An investigation into the response of the Capitol police is underway. One officer was seen taking a selfie with a insurrectionist, and several rioters were escorted from the premises without being handcuffed.Equating the pro-Trump rioters to the Black Lives Matter movement could lead to even heavier law enforcement surveillance and actions against BLM, said Scott Roberts of Color of Change, the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트s largest digital racial justice advocacy group.바카라 게임 웹사이트There is a real danger of this false equivocation leading to ramifications, whether intended or unintended,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.___Associated Press Writer Aaron Morrison in New York contributed to this report.

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Black activists are coming out strongly against a growing narrative among conservatives that equates the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol with last summer's Black Lives Matter protests of racial injustice.

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Republican lawmakers defending President Donald Trump made the comparison again Wednesday while building their case against impeachment and accused Democrats of being hypocrites with selective outrage. Their comments mark the latest effort by Trump and the GOP to misrepresent the Black Lives Matter movement as an extremist, violent faction tied to anarchists.

바카라 게임 웹사이트You can moan and groan, but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace than some of the BLM and left-wing rioters were this summer when we saw violence sweep across this nation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said in defending Trump before the House voted 232-197 to impeach the president for inciting an insurrection.

But the two events were fundamentally different. One was an intentional, direct attack on a hallowed democratic institution, with the goal of overturning a fair and free election. The other was a coast-to-coast protest movement demanding an end to systemic racism that occasionally, but not frequently, turned violent.

바카라 게임 웹사이트The GOP has become the party of false equivalences,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said James Jones, assistant professor of African American studies and sociology at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.

Many BLM protestors were responding to the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man who was seen on video gasping for breath as a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd바카라 게임 웹사이트s neck. Police repelled the demonstrators using rubber bullets, tear gas and military assets like helicopters.

The mob at the Capitol was fueled by baseless conspiracies propagated by Trump that the election was stolen from him through massive fraud. The rioters acted on the president바카라 게임 웹사이트s direct urging to 바카라 게임 웹사이트fight like hell.바카라 게임 웹사이트 They attacked police with pipes and chemicals and planted bombs. They were met largely with restraint by law enforcement.

The unrest that followed Floyd's death included vandalism, arson and looting, but the vast majority of demonstrations were peaceful. Some of the worst violence was in Portland, where thousands of protesters turned out nightly for weeks. Some hurled fireworks, rocks, ball bearings and bottles at federal agents, and a member of a right-wing extremist group was gunned down by an antifa supporter.

But prominent BLM activists repeatedly distanced themselves from provocateurs and brawlers. Much of the violence came from provoked and unprovoked confrontations with police, during city-imposed curfews and after peaceful demonstrators had gone home. An analysis of more than 7,750 demonstrations in 2,400 locations across the country found that 93% happened with no violence, according to the US Crisis Monitor, a joint effort by Princeton University and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

The mob at the Capitol smashed its way into the heart of the federal government, seeking to interrupt constitutionally mandated proceedings to affirm President-elect Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s victory. Lawmakers fled into hiding, and five people were killed, including a Capitol police officer who was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher.

The 바카라 게임 웹사이트overwhelmingly nonviolent바카라 게임 웹사이트 demonstrations cannot be compared to the violence at the Capitol, "where white supremacists, mobilized by falsehoods peddled by President Trump and his GOP allies바카라 게임 웹사이트 laid siege to the Capitol 바카라 게임 웹사이트resulting in its desecration,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Jones said.

Trump has made no effort to apologize for remarks that egged on the insurrection. Instead he said Tuesday: "And if you look at what other people have said, politicians at a high level, about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places, that was a real problem 바카라 게임 웹사이트 what they said.바카라 게임 웹사이트

Freshman Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said Democrats should be removed for inciting violence by supporting the protests that followed Floyd's death in May.

Trump "has held over 600 rallies in the last four years. None of them included assaulting police, destroying businesses or burning down cities,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Greene said.

In fact, occasional violence has happened at Trump rallies, and the president has all but invited crowds to attack critics and journalists. At several events, Trump supporters and protesters have come to blows, including as recently as November, when clashes between people protesting the election results and counter-demonstrators ended with at least one stabbing and 20 arrests.

Freshman Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs of California said she was disgusted that Republican lawmakers used the comparison to avoid condemning a clear attempt 바카라 게임 웹사이트to stop the processes of democracy."

바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s telling that so many Republicans aren바카라 게임 웹사이트t even attempting to defend the President 바카라 게임 웹사이트 because his actions are indefensible," she said in a statement to The Associated Press after voting to impeach Trump.

The president in a tweet called the Capitol rioters 바카라 게임 웹사이트great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.바카라 게임 웹사이트 Over the summer, he called the Black Lives Matters protesters 바카라 게임 웹사이트thugs바카라 게임 웹사이트 and 바카라 게임 웹사이트terrorists.바카라 게임 웹사이트

In 2020, law enforcement agencies made more than 14,000 protest-related arrests, often detaining people who engaged in civil disobedience, as well as acts of violence.

Trump has portrayed people arrested in the protests as dangerous, left-wing radicals. A review by The Associated Press found many were young suburban adults with no previous run-ins with the law or ties to antifa.

An investigation into the response of the Capitol police is underway. One officer was seen taking a selfie with a insurrectionist, and several rioters were escorted from the premises without being handcuffed.

Equating the pro-Trump rioters to the Black Lives Matter movement could lead to even heavier law enforcement surveillance and actions against BLM, said Scott Roberts of Color of Change, the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트s largest digital racial justice advocacy group.

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Associated Press Writer Aaron Morrison in New York contributed to this report.