© Pool via REUTERS / Matt McClainPramila Jayapal questions Attorney General William Barr during the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) has compared armed anti-lockdown protesters in Michigan, an open-carry state, to vandals and rioters in Portland, as she unleashed a tirade on AG Bill Barr for treating the groups differently.
Barr was accused of plenty by Democrats during Tuesday's hearing, from politicizing the Justice Department to being "unAmerican" for deploying federal officers to violent protests in Portland, Oregon. However, Jayapal went a step further and questioned the way the attorney general responds to protests involving black citizens and those involving white ones, while comparing and contrasting anti-lockdown protests in Michigan in April and May and the current Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland, Oregon.
"But in Michigan when protesters
carried guns and Confederate flags and swastikas and called for the governor of Michigan to be beheaded and shot and lynched, somehow you are not aware of that," she told Barr.
"There is a real discrepancy in how you react as attorney general
when white men with swastikas storm a government building with guns. There is no need for the president to, quote, 'activate you,' because they're getting the president's personal agenda done," she continued.
While some of the anti-lockdown protesters against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) were armed and were indeed allowed into the state capitol,
there were no reports of vandalism or violence against either lawmakers or officers who were protecting the building. Michigan is an open-carry state, and it is not illegal to bear firearms inside the statehouse.
Comment: A montage of the Democrats disgraceful treatment of the Attorney General of the United States at a hearing THEY had been clamoring for for months.