As violent protesters stormed the U.S. Capitolon Wednesday during the counting of electoral votes to confirm President-elect Joe Biden, America was watching. That included some people in the entertainment world, many of whom were compelled to comment on social media as the angry mob and thugs made their way into the government building. As rioters looted, smashed windows, and sprayed police officers with chemicals, people watching the chaos happen on social media were noticing the huge difference in response to the attack and last year’s Black Lives Matter protests.
Marches and protest against police brutality and the killings of unarmed Black people — like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, were last summer met with an overflow of police and military presence, which often led to law enforcement officers using tear gas and physical violence against protesters.
Cardi B called the situation “ironic,” saying, “weren’t people just wild animals in the summer for demanding justice and now?”
The irony is pretty funny………weren’t people just wild animals in the summer for demanding justice and now?🤔🤔🤔🤔……Let me just watch.
She wrote in a follow-up tweet: “Protesters were getting called animals, looters, thugs for rioting and protesting over JUSTICE & EQUALITY by the same people that are out today doing the same shit over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!”
50 Cent took to Instagram where he shared a photo of a fleet of military personnel at the US Capitol during the BLM protests during the summer. “I don’t have to say anything else,” he captioned.
Meek Mill described the scene as “two Americas.” “2 americas! They would of shot us down literally if this was blacks by the way,” he wrote. ScHoolboy Q showed the same frustration in a tweet, saying, “If tHe police don’t start smoking tHese weirdos ima get Hot.”
Plies, however, saw the incident in a different light, expressing that this is the type of exposure America needs. “America is gettin’ to see who the real thugs are in this country.”
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In most countries throughout history, if you try a coup and it doesn’t work, you get lined up and shot. Since America is no longer operating like a first world country when do the executions start?
