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right0Race double standard clear in rioters’ Capitol insurrection AP News, January 7, 2021Black Lives Matter protests, 2020: Overwhelming force from law enforcement in dozens of cities. Chemical dispersants. Rubber bullets and hand-to-hand combat with largely peaceful crowds and some unruly vandals and looters. More than 14,000 arrests.The U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021: Barely more than a few dozen arrests. Several weapons seized, improvised explosive devices found. Members of a wilding mob escorted from the premises, some not even in handcuffs.The key difference? The first set of protesters were overwhelmingly Black Americans and their allies. The second group was overwhelmingly white Americans who support outgoing President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud…‘America’s double standard: Bay Area racial justice activists denounce police reaction to pro-Trump mobBy Tatiana Sanchez, San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2021The violent pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday?sent shock waves across the nation?and enraged Bay Area supporters and organizers of racial justice protests, who said police appeared to show much more restraint — and use significantly less force — in responding to the largely white crowd.“It is America’s double standard on full display,” said Zahra Billoo, a civil rights lawyer and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the Bay Area. “It is not surprising, but it is nonetheless disappointing to see how this violent mob of people attempting to disrupt law and order are treated so differently than civil rights advocates, like myself, and other Muslims and minorities who have been advocating for change through law and order for decades.”ARTICLESFact check: Viral images compare handling of Black Lives Matter protests and Capitol riotBy McKenzie Sadeghi, USA Today, January 7, 2021Black Lives Matter protests and the Capitol assault: Comparing the police responsePolitifact, January 8, 2021MAGA v BLM: how police handle the Capitol mob and George Floyd activists – in picturesBy Julian Borger, The Guardian, January 7, 2021Attack on the Capitol shows America’s racial double standard is alive and wellBy Michael A. Fletcher, The Undefeated, January 8, 2021Accusations of Bias, Racism Swirl Around Capitol Police After Mob AttackBy Kimberly Dozier and Melissa Chan, Time, January 8, 2021The Capitol siege’s echoes in history: Of race, rage and refusal to accept realityBy Ann V. Collins, NY Daily News, January 11, 2021A scholar of American anti-Semitism explains the hate symbols present during the US Capitol riotBy Jonathan D. Sarna, The Conversation, January 8, 2021YOUTUBEJoy Reid: If this was a BLM protest, there would already be people shackled, arrested or deadMSNBC, January 6, 2021Was protest at Nation’s Capitol handled differently based on race?NBC Bay Area, January 7, 2021If it were black people at Capitol, it would have been a massacre: BLM co-founderGood Morning America, January 7, 2021Exposed: Police double standards from Trump riot to BLM protestsThe Beat with Ari Melber, MSNBC, January 7, 2021BLM activists point to race double standard in Capitol riot ABC7 News Bay Area, January 7, 2021 ................
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