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Cruz claims that just because he helped lead the effort to stop Congress from certifying Biden s win doesn’t mean he’s responsible for Wednesday’s violence. Some of his already vocal critics disagree, and are calling on Cruz to resign and repent.
At one event Thursday organized by the Houston Socialist Movement, the People’s New Black Panther Party and Houston United Front Against Fascism, demonstrators waved signs and hung posters in front of Cruz’s downtown office labeling him a “WHITE NATIONALIST COWARD,” and “TRAITOR.” Other protesters focused on the need to RESIST TRUMP and remove the president from office immediately.
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On Thursday, incoming President Joe Biden undermined his message of “unity” by demonizing Donald Trump’s entire presidency. He argued that the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol was the culmination of Trump’s alleged assault on America’s institutions, from the free press to the intelligence community to the courts and the Department of Justice. He also compared the Capitol riots with Black Lives Matter protests without condemning the riots that followed the Black Lives Matter protests.
Biden began his remarks by rightly condemning the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. “What we witnessed yesterday was not dissent, it was not disorder, it was not protest. It was chaos. They weren’t protesters, don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It’s that basic, it’s that simple,” Biden said, issuing the full condemnation he should have given to the antifa and Black Lives Mat
Antifa, boogaloo, gangs cited in CPD protest report. Who were agitators? David Travis Bland, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Dec. 22 Antifa, Boogaloo Boys, The New Black Panther Party, street gangs as well as a couple of President Donald Trump supporters were all at Columbia s protests for racial justice in late May, according to a Columbia Police Department report released Dec. 2.
But only people belonging to two of those groups the Boogaloo Boys and gangs were arrested after the demonstrations turned violent.
The after-action report details the Columbia protests in late May against police killings of Black people and the department s response to the protests. The demonstrations escalated into property damage, assaults, objects thrown at police and burned police vehicles.
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