Scarborough: If Rioters Had Been Black, ‘They Would Been Shot in the Face’

‘If they had been Muslim, they would have been shot and sent to GITMO’

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SCARBOROUGH: “If those rioters had been from Anacostia, if they had been black, they would have been shot in the face and killed. If they had been organizing a protest to disrupt the election and had bragged about that protest coming on December the 6th, there wouldn’t have been a protest. You know why? They would have never gone the permits. And security would have been so tough that the first 15 people coming together talking about insurrection if they were black --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Yeah."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- they would have been beaten and dragged off to jail. And I will say, again, if they had been Muslim, they would have been shot and sent to Gitmo. So we have made extraordinary progress. And yet here we have staring in our face another example of how police officers, at least at the Capitol on that day --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Mm-hmm."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- treated white people differently than they would have treated black people, Hispanics, how they would have treated Muslims differently. And that look is a look that black Americans say they see every day.”

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