Democrats call for investigation into police conduct after claims of ‘inside job’ in Capitol riots

 A pro-Trump protester is tended to by a police officer

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Other lawmakers have publicly questioned whether racial bias impacted the treatment of the rioters, who were predominantly white, and drew comparisons with law enforcement officers’  tough crackdowns on Black Lives Matter protesters last year.

“If the ‘protesters’ were Black they would have been shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, and killed,”said congresswoman Bennie Thompson.

“Police do not take white, right-wing protesters as seriously and they don’t treat them as a threat in the way they treat African Americans, Latinos and other groups,” Joaquin Castro, a Hispanic congressman, told Politico. “And I think we saw the consequence of that this week.”