Rashida Tlaib said "What I saw when Black Lives Matter protesters were here, and those defending the right to choose, it seemed like, all of a sudden, all of you had resources. You all had a plan then. Why is it when white supremacist terrorists show up here to want to lynch the vice president, to attack the speaker, to attack our democracy, threatening the lives of members of Congress, but really the lives of just our whole livelihood and our country, that no one seemed to want to show up?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 14, 2021

What I saw when Black Lives Matter protesters were here, and those defending the right to choose, it seemed like, all of a sudden, all of you had resources. You all had a plan then. Why is it when white supremacist terrorists show up here to want to lynch the vice president, to attack the speaker, to attack our democracy, threatening the lives of members of Congress, but really the lives of just our whole livelihood and our country, that no one seemed to want to show up?

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Rashida Tlaib

Democratic · Michigan

Source

msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib questions the disparity in law enforcement response between Black Lives Matter protests and the January 6th insurrection.

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