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To the insurrection and trump devotees. and they had built up this story about this savage killer cop. and race of course figured prominently in that tale since his clear in video his hands holding the gun behind the doors that he was a black man. so before michael bird even came forward, he was treated in a way that was a complete inversion of how the right usually treats police. you'll remember, of course, in the wake of george floyd's murder when right-wing media bent over backwards to offer sympathy to his killer and alternative explanations for floyd's death. tucker carlson and his buddie...

Respect for the law. trump was flagrantly lawless. everyone knew it. the first president to be impeached two times, both times for abusing his position to try and stay in power. so of course the moment in which a black man wearing the capitol police uniform defended a citadel of democracy against a marauding horde of trump supporters, that is an inversion of the natural order. so lieutenant michael bird, who was clears of wrongdoing in an internal investigation has a difficult time ahead of him. of course he already has had a difficult time as the force of this venom is directed towards him. b...

That and certain things don't. so, you know, roughing up, quote, unquote, bad guys or, you know, arresting bad guys or patrolling the thin blue line that prevents, you know, the sort of hordes from overwhelming civilization, like that's safety. that's security. that's like the righteous serving and protecting. but getting a shot or wearing a mask, like that's for -- that's emasculating or that's for other people. but it's this like -- you're more likely as both a police officer to get covid and die of covid, and also in facing the public, like that's a real threat to people's safety, and it ju...

Leading to the house chamber and a capitol officer shot her, instead of defending blue lives, they spent months turning ashli babbitt into a mortar, whipping up a frenzy of hate towards this police officer. so it was predictable that when lieutenant michael bird came forward, that fox would come after him. >> so she was an unarmed protester. i don't think we execute unarmed protesters, do we? well, we just did. no one's apologized for it. he's a hero. michael bird executed an enemy of the biden administration, so they're praising him. but we call that courage, we've devalued the term. >> execu...

General, and i am -- i don't know. i hit something. >> you hit something? >> the shocking resolution after a republican state attorney general struck and killed a pedestrian with his car. >> things haven't been straightforward by any means. in fact, some people have called you a liar. >> congresswoman cori bush slept on capitol steps to fight for an eviction moratorium. she joins me tonight to talk about how the supreme court just took it away when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. when capitol police officer michael bird -- you saw him here last night -...