>>> IN HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE THE
HOUSE TODAY, ATTORNEY GENERAL
WILLIAM BARR CONTINUED THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION’S TALKING POINTS,
DEMONIZING PEOPLE PROTESTING
AROUND THE COUNTRY, FOR TURNING
THE LARGEST STREET MOVEMENT IN
HISTORY AS A DANGEROUS THREAT TO
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
HE AND THE REPUBLICANS AND THE
COMMITTEE ECHOED THE PRESIDENT
WHO YESTERDAY BASICALLY LIKENED
THE PROTESTORS TO TERRORISTS AND
THREATENED THEM TO A DECADE IN
PRISON -- TO ARMED WHITE
PROTESTORS FOR EQUAL TREATMENT
UNDER THE LAW.
>> THERE IS A REAL DISCREPANCY
IN HOW YOU REACT AS THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL, THE TOP SKOP IN THIS
COUNTRY, WHEN WHITE MEN WITH
SWASTIKAS STORM A GOVERNMENT
BUILDING WITH GUNS, THERE IS NO
NEED FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
"ACTIVATE YOU" BECAUSE THEY’RE
GETTING THE PRESIDENT’S PERSONAL
AGENDA DONE.
BUT WHEN BLACK PEOPLE AND PEOPLE
OF COLOR PROTEST POLICE
BRUTALITY, SYSTEMIC RACISM, AND
THE PRESIDENT’S VERY OWN LACK OF
RESPONSE TO THOSE CRITICAL
ISSUES, THEN YOU FORCIBLY REMOVE
THEM WITH ARMED FEDERAL
OFFICERS, PEPPER BOMBS, BECAUSE
THEY ARE CONSIDERED TERRORISTS
BY THE PRESIDENT.
>> THE TRUTH HERE, OVER THE LAST
SEVERAL MONTHS REMAINS THAT THE
MOST ACTUAL DOCUMENT AND THE
WORST ACTUAL DOCUMENTED
INSTANCES OF VIOLENCE HAVE BEEN
PERPETRATED BY RIGHT WING
NATIONALISTS, FROM THE GUY WHO
KILLED TWO OFFICERS IN
CALIFORNIA, TO THE RIGHT WING
ANTI-FEMINIST LAWYER WHO TRIED
TO ASSASSINATE A JUDGE AND
MURDERED HER SON, TO THE
RICHMOND MAYOR BLAMING PROTESTS
ON WHITE SUPREMISTS MARCHING
UNDER THE BANNER OF BLACK LIVES
MATTER, ATTENDING TO UNDER MINE
A MOVEMENT TOWARDS SOCIAL
JUSTICE.
YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THIS VIDEO OF
THIS MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTOR,
BREAKING WINDOWS DURING THE
PROTESTS FOLLOWING THE KILLING
OF GEORGE FLOYD.
HE HAD SPRAY PAINTED FREE STUFF
FOR EVERYONE ON THE FRONT DOORS.
ONLOOKER WERE STUNNED TO SEE
WHAT HE WAS DOING AND CONFRONTED
HIM.
THIS IS WHAT MINNESOTA ATTORNEY
GENERAL KEITH ELLISON SAID A FEW
DAYS LATER.
>> JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, UNLIKEON
THE SECOND DAY OF PROTEST, THERE
WAS A MAN DRESSED IN ALL BLACK,
HE WAS A CAUCASIAN PERSON, A GAS
MASK, UMBRELLA.
IT WAS NOT RAINING.
THAT LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT
THERE IS REAL LEGITIMATE
EVIDENCE THAT THIS IS A VERY
SERIOUS OPERATION BEING DONE TO
TARNISH THE LEGITIMATE PROTESTS
THAT IS GOING ON.
>> THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
REPORTS THAT MAN IS SUSPECTED OF
TIES TO A WHITE SUPREMACIST
GROUP AND SOUGHT TO INCITE
RACIAL TENSION.
JOINING ME NOW IS MINNESOTA
ATTORNEY GENERAL KEITH ELLISON.
IT’S GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON,
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
I KNOW YOU CAN’T GET INTO THE
SPECIFICS OF CRIMINAL CASES.
BUT THERE WAS A SENSE THAT THERE
MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME FORCES
ACTING IN THIS, SORT OF
SABOTAGING WAY.
I’M CURIOUS YOUR REACTION TO THE
LATEST NEWS FROM THE STAR
TRIBUNE.
>> WELL, I’M NOT SURPRISED THAT
THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS ALLEGEDLY
CONNECTED TO WHITE SUPREMACIST
GROUPS.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THAT
THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE, THE
MOVEMENT FOR POLICE
ACCOUNTABILITY IS POWERFUL.
AND THEY WANT TO DELEGITIMIZE
THAT MOVEMENT.
AND SO SOME OF THEM HAVE
INFILTRATED THAT MOVEMENT AND
CREATED DAMAGE AND DESTRUCTION
AND ORSON, AND THEN RUN AWAY AND
MAKE THE GENERAL PUBLIC BELIEVE
THAT IS THE MOVEMENT. THAT’S NOT THE MOVEMENT.
THAT’S NOT THE MOVEMENT.
IN FACT, IT’S ANTI-THREATTHETICA
THAT MOVEMENT THEY’RE TRYING TO
UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMACY OF THE MOVEMENT AND MAKE PEOPLE THINK