State Rep. Park Cannon of Georgia knocked on the door of the legislative capital building because she was locked out of witnessing the governor signing new electoral restrictions into law. Immediately, she's manhandled by two state police, lead out of the building and subsequently arrested by a group of three different officers holding her down.
Reverend and now-Senator Ralph Warnock, along with Congressman Hank Johnson and Pastor Cynthia L. Hale, calmly walked into the capitol rotunda, knelt down and prayed, as a form of peaceful protest against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the passage of a Republican budget proposal. Within moments fourteen police officers form a perimeter, then seven more new ones cuff them and force them out of the building.
Earlier this year, while the states were ratifying their electoral votes, thousands of angry Trump supporters, all of whom were white, stormed what should've been the most secure building in the country. They broke windows, killed cops and security guards, vandalised congressional offices, and almost made it to the chamber where the congresspeople were being kept. Then they just kinda...filtered out. They all went home. Only 325 were charged and the GOP are currently arguing that pursuing any sort of legal action is bad faith. Some people say that the cops were actually assisting with rioters, posing for selfies and escorting them up the capital steps.
I'm so fucking sick and tired of America. Jim Crow never ended, it's just got new paint.
