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Experts denounce comparison between Capitol siege, BLM protests


Updated: 12:43 PM PST Jan 14, 2021
By Julie Watson
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.“You 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,” Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said in defending Trump before the Hou ....

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