And they were let into the Capitol building grounds as they explicitly threatened to take down the United States government. Supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by Capitol police officers outside the Senate Chamber in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. Likewise, during the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020, police response was markedly different. A failure to tackle the problem of the most violent elements of white supremacy by policy makers is one of the very ways that white supremacy functions structurally in our society. What happened in the U.S. Capitol building was entirely predictable — allowing racism and white supremacy to foment unabated is dangerous.

Source: CBC News January 07, 2021 23:37 UTC