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  • a zhahn dreads of predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.

  • S Capitol this week, breaking windows and wreaking havoc.

  • Politicians and activists said.

  • The lack of security and limited police response stood in stark contrast.

  • Tow law enforcement's handling of the largely peaceful black lives matter protests in Washington six months ago.

  • They are marching through now.

  • Writers on Wednesday broke through barricades and stormed the capital in a rampage that terrorized lawmakers and killed five people.

  • Then they left with few immediate consequences.

  • We live in Two Americas in what some, including Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, said, shows the racial double standard in America couldn't help but toe wonder.

  • Um, if those were my kind storming the Capitol, what would have been outcome?

  • And I think we all know it's not even no if ands or buts.

  • We already know what would have happened to my kind if anyone would even got close, um, to the capital, let alone storm and inside the offices inside the hallways.

  • President elect Joe Biden expressed similar thoughts in a speech on Thursday.

  • No one can tell me that have had been a group of black lives matter, protest ing yesterday there wouldn't have been.

  • They wouldn't have been treated very, very differently in the mob of thugs that stormed the capital.

  • We all we all know that's true, and it is unacceptable, totally unacceptable.

  • At black Lives matter protests in Washington In June, the National Guard was deployed along with a heavy police presence, as Trump vowed to crack down on what he called lawlessness by thugs.

  • Police then fired smoke canisters, flash bang grenades and rubber bullets to drive peaceful protesters away from the White House so that Trump could walk to a nearby church and be photographed holding a Bible.

  • Nearly 300 were arrested that evening.

  • Meanwhile, 68 were arrested in connection to Wednesday stunning security breach, though officials say that number is expected to grow.

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