 When far-right terrorists and traitors stormed the US capital and took it over for a short period of time It really showed to you how much The police are allowing right-wingers to get away with like they were basically allowed to take selfies In the Senate, you know just hang out chill in the offices of various members of Congress including Nancy Pelosi and They all got to go home Imagine that imagine being able to storm the capital Literally stage a coup and then still be home in time for dinner. Could you imagine what would happen if black lives matter tried to do this? Could you imagine? What would happen? They would be lucky if they landed in jail because that means that they would have survived because they all would have been shot because we know that police in America Treat black lives matter activists and black people and even left-wing causes entirely different Then they treat right-wingers. So in case you forgot this is how Black lives matter activists were treated back in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd when protests erupted across the country This is how the cops treated them You see police officers physically assaulting black lives matter protesters, but you might think well, you know what? That's just like in various cities. This is the capital. So capital police are different, right? They're gonna be more lenient. Well, no in actuality if any police in The country is going to be a lot more stringent in the way that they deal with protests You'd think that the capital would be the area where they take protests more seriously because this is our capital They have to protect the capital, right? So if you recall back in 2017 I think it was when the Republican Party was proposing their appeal of the Affordable Care Act and they were proposing cuts to Medicaid There were dozens of disabled activists that protested outside of Mitch McConnell's office. And can you guess what happened? Capital police did not clear a path for them to go through capital police didn't allow them to make their voices heard capital police Arrested them. Some of them were literally dragged out Off of their wheelchairs take a look Absolutely just stunning, you know if those protesters wanted to stay and make their voices heard and remain outside of Mitch McConnell's office now We know that all they needed to do was put on a MAGA hat And then they would have been allowed to stay by capital police Where was Where was this energy when they stormed the capital? Where was that energy? It's shocking and a lot of folks who protested at the capital Explain that capital police. They don't take any shit. Adi Barkan tweeted out I was arrested by capital police for sitting peacefully eight times These rioters get escorted out to freedom Alexis Goldstein writes when protesters tried to take the capital steps during the cavat on nomination every single person was arrested But yet these folks got to go home Trump and Republicans called on them to go home and that was it you have folks literally Looting the capital building. I thought that the party of law and order was against Rioters and looters and they just get to go home. No jail time nothing Where was this restraint during the Black Lives Matter protests? This is how right-wingers are allowed to act Remember when armed thugs stormed the capital building in Michigan to protest the lockdown orders due to COVID-19 I mean look at the restraint that police officers exercised as armed thugs screamed in their faces and what we saw from the riots at the capital I mean, they were there were no different There were clashes with pro-trump terrorists and you know, some were tear-gassed But for the most part The individuals who literally tried to stage a coup of our government were not met with the ruthlessness that we saw During the Black Lives Matter protests. In fact, capital police Literally stood by as they watched far-right terrorists invade the capital building Can you imagine how they would act if Black Lives Matter protesters would be doing that? I'd imagine they wouldn't be standing idly by now if you're wondering Why are they letting them just do that? Why are they standing there? Why aren't they doing anything? Well this video from tiktok shows that they opened the gates for them. They welcomed them in Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go And it gets worse because one capital police officer even took a selfie with one of these terrorists So you invade the capital building and Capital police rather than dragging you out as they did disabled protesters and peaceful protesters Prior they take selfies with you. Are they arrested? Are they brutalized? Like Black Lives Matter protesters would be like I'm not calling for them to be brutalized Right peaceful protesters. I don't care if your right wing or left wing you should not be brutalized That's not what I'm advocating But what I'm saying here is we have to acknowledge the double standard. How often do we see peaceful protesters advocating for good causes? Arrested when leaving the capital building, but when you have a literal coup attempt well They don't arrest you they let you leave and sometimes they might hold your hand and help you out quite literally as we See from this video that was shared by Alexis Goldstein Literally being escorted out as she takes her time and he's helping her This is someone who just was part of a coup attempt and you see a capital police officer and riot gear Helping her so the question is why were capital police showing so much restraint? Why were they behaving in a way? That's relatively respectful when Black Lives Matter protesters They get beat up. They get maced pepper sprayed brutalized. Why were capital police? Allowing this to happen Well as the New York Times reports inside the capital an officer pleaded with a man in a green backpack saying you guys just need To go outside when asked why they weren't expelling the protesters the officer said we've just got to let them do their thing now That is amazing So if you're a right-winger you could do anything you could literally storm the US capital and stage a coup and you could just leave They'll help you out That is insane to me When we just watched the video of Black Lives Matter protesters being sprayed from behind Getting pushed and kicked but try to stage a coup take over our government and our democratic regime and We just got to let them do their thing. They're just mad guys and it's not just the capital police who I'm Theorious at right now. It's public officials Ivanka Trump before deleting this tweet literally addressed them by calling them American patriots And when Trump tweeted out a video where he addressed them, of course, he was kissing their asses, too I know you're pain. I know you're hurt. We love you. You're very special Now contrast what he said there with the way he spoke about the protesters after George Floyd was murdered quote these thugs are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd and I won't let that happen just spoke to governor Tim Walls and told him that the military is with him all the way any Difficulty and we will assume control but when the looting starts the shooting starts. Thank you now in his message to fascists He didn't threaten to bring in the military or forcefully remove them He asked them politely to go home and If you're wondering why we had this double standard, well, I think that's pretty obvious We live in a white supremacist country where white outrage is always justified under every single circumstance But black outrage is never justified. You're protesting and rioting over the death of a black American at the hands of the state completely unjustified But if you're wanting to steal democracy away because you'll believe some idiotic reality television show star that this election was rigged Well, that's fine because you're white your anger is justified your intentions are pure But outrage over black deaths Never justifiable you should stop looting and rioting. There's no amount of pain that would justify that kind of behavior It's just astonishing like this double standard should piss every single person off and You know the reason why we have this double standard is because in a lot of instances I'm generalizing but in a lot of instances if you ask a cop nine times out of ten They're gonna say they're a Republican or a Trump supporter not all of them But the overwhelming majority of them and that's a really big problem the fact that law enforcement in America is Right-wing and we have a right-wing party who is authoritarian that is a really big problem now capital police You know It's not like they're not capable of getting this crowd under control because if you'll remember last summer They used chemical weapons against peaceful protesters. I don't know if that was capital police and National Guard I don't know what the case was but they used chemical weapons Tear gas against peaceful protesters and they did this also Donald Trump could take a photo op so make no mistake about it The only reason why this happened is because capital police let it happen a privilege That would never ever be afforded to black lives matter protesters black people would never be allowed to behave this way at our nation's capital And as journalist Garrett Graff puts it I can't get over how thoroughly the capital police one of the nation's largest and best funded police forces failed today They're utter abdication of their most basic role hold control and secure the capital building Endangered every person inside from the vice president down to be clear This was a total strategic failure by capital police not a tactical one This wasn't like a couple protesters slipped in a side door that was accidentally unlocked rioters Stormed up the main capital steps and waltzed in and then just as appallingly waltzed out now Bill Kibbin responded to this saying having been routinely arrested by them at a completely peaceful utterly non-threatening Pre-announced protest with a 93 year old woman I can testify that they're capable of acting like jerks when they want to so in other words it happened because They let it happen So this is extremely like demoralizing and depressing to see I just don't know how as a country we move forward You can't work with a party and a base that is completely delusional and violent Being delusional in and of itself is an issue But being violent and delusional that is a very dangerous Very dangerous combination and that's what we saw take place and it's not gonna go away With Donald Trump. I'm worried that this is gonna take place at state capitals across the country at the inauguration and You know the FBI has been warning about far-right violence for years now, but it's been swept under the rug So maybe it's time that they actually pay attention because lawmakers were endangered today Lawmakers were in danger So if they don't take this seriously and start paying attention to far-right violence in this country and far-right terrorism, when will they? You could support the humanist report at patreon.com Slashed humanist report, but trust me I'd have way more supporters at patreon if that was my podcast sad