On the recordSeptember 21, 2020
I thank the gentleman for his commentary, but I am going to rise and ask my colleagues to support this legislation in a bipartisan manner. As indicated--I would correct my friend's interpretation--Mr. Steube's amendment was added in the markup and the findings at that time addressed antigovernment actors and violence against police. We made it very clear, and it was bipartisan, that we condemn violence of any kind. But what I would say as well is that the simple addition as it relates to Kenosha was in sharp contrast to the visual, the video, of a direct skin contact shooting of an individual whose back was turned, and then the call across the Nation for white supremacists and white nationalists to come and defend. Defend what? There was law enforcement there. I think the governor had even asked for the Wisconsin National Guard to safeguard everyone. But here was someone that came--a teenager. I am grateful that he remained alive; grateful. But he walked with guns, and is alleged to have killed, harmed, three people at least, never was confronted by officers, of course, to our knowledge, and got home to sleep in his bed. On the other hand, Jacob Blake, whose father I met, wound up in ICU, wound up paralyzed, a victim in the Kenosha shootings.…
