![]() ![]() On the thug list are also non-elected officials, including some owners of professional sports teams who initially banned NFL players from “taking a knee” in support of Colin Kaepernick’s demonstration of solidarity with efforts to reduce Black racism. ![]() Many of these Republican legislators and administration staff thwarted the appropriate and rapid response to COVID-19, stalled delivery of the necessary economic relief to struggling citizens, fed into the campaign to invalidate the 2020 presidential election, blocked legislation for police reform, supported cuts to federal safety-net programs and universal health care, and rejected proposals to remove Confederate monuments of slave owners and other oppressors who are the stimuli for current day right-wing aggression. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and other Republican leaders who sided often with Trump’s insatiable appetite for power and lack of empathy for America’s more vulnerable populations, especially people of color. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who refused to concede to their pronouncements of election fraud hours after a failed coup of Congress orchestrated by their leader. A few of them are in Congress, like Trump-enablers Sens. Trump’s thugs reacted to the cumulative build-up of rhetoric from a long list of more powerful thugs who have leaned heavily into Trump’s divisive and racist rhetoric over the last four years. The activities that America and the world witnessed did not happen in a vacuum or overnight. Angry Black Americans have been attacked, bullied, lynched, and killed by police for exercising their civil rights, like attempting to vote, enter a public school building, or ride on a public bus, starting after slavery’s abolition. The decision by some Capitol police officers to be less confrontational before groups of angry, predominantly white mobsters that were trying to break into the nation’s most important building with members of Congress inside showed the persistent irony of equitable treatment in the United States. They were not fighting for the inalienable right to vote, walk safely in their community without being profiled by neighbors and the police, or have full accessibility to the rights of citizenship mandated by the U.S. ![]() Trump’s thugs were destroying and trespassing on Capitol property. Because they were not Black, Latino, or Native American, there were no visible arrests, riot gear, dogs, or batons until District of Columbia police stepped in to curb the melee and make arrests. The day-of visuals of this uncontrolled mob were the highest level of contemporary thuggery done by Americans. The day following the incident, the Capitol police chief, and two security officers resigned in response to the criticism of their lax handling of the coup and the double standard treatment when confronting peaceful BLM protestors. Capitol police officer who was recorded taking selfies with insurgents, and another video appearing to show a soft breach of the security gate, allowing hundreds of protestors to walk into federal property. The four-year trance of Trump’s misinformation about stolen elections, the denial of COVID-19 as a public health threat, among other un-related online conspiracy theories, led his supporters to storm the heart of official national business, vandalize memorials, ransack private offices, position pipe bombs near DNC and RNC headquarters, and attempt to break into the congressional chamber with force, leaving five people dead when it was all over.īut on this same day, other individuals joined the list of thugs, like a U.S. and Rudy Giuliani, to wreak havoc on our democracy. Trump and his co-agitators, Donald Trump Jr. They were directed by the leading thugs-Donald J. ![]() The thugs on that day were not just the rebellious, lawless, Confederate-flag-toting Trump supporters turned domestic terrorists who took over the building. Twitter the true “thugs” were revealed during and after fervent Trump supporters and far-right, white supremacist, and Neo-Nazis factions took over the U.S. ![]()
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