As rioters broke into the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6 seemingly met by little police presence, observers around the country reacted with outrage at the stark contrast with how police and National Guard troops treated last year's nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.
Even President-elect Joe Biden commented, in a speech the following day, on the disparity, saying, "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently from the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.
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