The racial contradictions of Trump's 'law and order' mantra

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The racial contradictions of Trump’s ‘law and order’ mantra
Police treatment of the Capitol rioters “says a lot about who is an enemy combatant and who is not.”

The chaos on Capitol Hill — and the radically different responses from law enforcement — showcased a reality many activists, journalists and Trump opponents have long argued exists: Trump never really stood for law and order, even if he repeatedly used the phrase in his campaign last year while diverting attention from the escalating pandemic. And the chaos demonstrated another reality laid bare last summer by the death of George Floyd: law enforcement is applied very differently based on race.


Journalists inside the Capitol captured rioters breaking windows and attempting to replace an American flag outside the building with a Trump flag. They recorded Trump supporters roaming the halls of the building. And how Capitol Police handled it — or didn’t — did not go unnoticed across social media, where reporters, historians and activists spoke out against what they see as hypocrisy: An overwhelmingly white crowd acting violently was handled gently compared to peaceful protesters in Washington and across the country during the protests over Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri), a veteran of Black Lives Matters protests in Ferguson, Missouri, appeared on MSNBC Wednesday night and criticized the disparate treatment.

“It was almost like there was this call [for the police] to not use force,” Bush said. “There are pictures and videos of police officers just walking away. …. Had it been people who looked like me. Had it been the same amount of people but had they been Black and brown. We wouldn’t have made it up those steps. We wouldn't have made it to get into the door and bust windows and go put our feet up on desks of Congress members. We wouldn’t have made it that far. We would’ve been shot. We would've been tear gassed. .... We need to call it what it is. It’s white supremacy.”

Politicians, former officials, activists and others on social media vented their fury, tweeting “#ThisisAmerica” posting pictures and videos that highlighted the different ways Black and Brown protesters were treated by police compared to the Capitol insurrectionists.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/donald-trump-law-and-order-mantra-racial-455714

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1. This has been given lip service from the media.

There needs to be a full scale reporting of the disparity. Unfortunately how we view actions like these demands entirely on the group doing the damage.

[Solly Mack]

2. For one example...

A pro-Trump rioter is tended to by a police officer while suffering the effects of chemical agents used to disperse crowds after rioters stormed the grounds of the Capitol on Wednesday. Photograph by Jon Cherry

No cop did that for BLM.