This image from police body-worn camera video shows Jeffrey Sabol at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Sabol, who was sentenced to five years in prison in March, ripped the baton out of the hands of a fallen police officer, leaving him unable to defend himself against assaults by other rioters.
Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Experts say comparisons to the Capitol riot, or an infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally, are strained.CBC News was on the scene as New York police entered Hamilton Hall, the administration building that protesters began occupying on Tuesday morning, at Columbia University.
"They took over a building. That is a big deal," Trump said of the Columbia protesters. "And I wonder if what's going to happen to them will be anything comparable to what happened to J6, because they're doing a lot of destruction, a lot of damages, a lot of people getting hurt very badly. I wonder if that's going to be the same kind of treatment they gave J6."
"The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was reprehensible. But it ended in two days," Fleischer posted on X. "What's happening now on college campuses is worse. It's been happening for weeks with no end in sight. It's based on hatred toward Jews and America."More than 1,350 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes.
"The Columbia protests are not aimed at stopping the peaceful transition of power following an election, so they do not threaten the functioning of U.S. democracy," said Richard Hasen, professor at the law school of UCLA, where protesters and counter-protesters clashed Tuesday night before a heavy police presence was summoned by school administrators.On Jan.
"Disruptive, to be sure. Annoying to university administrators, to be sure," Jefferson said. "To the contrary, what happened on January the 6th was a violent attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. There is no tradition of that in American history. It is unprecedented."
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