US President-Elect Joe Biden said there was no question that Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated differently to the "mob of thugs" who stormed the US Capitol.
Pounding the podium, Mr Biden said the double standard was "totally unacceptable". He said his granddaughter had raised the discrepancy of the treatment of crowds of Donald Trump supporters, who attempted to use force to halt his confirmation by Congress.
The extraordinary scenes of violence, which led to four deaths, were greeted with horror around the world. Mr Biden said: "No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs who stormed the Capitol. "We
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