Jan. 6 riot victims, Democrats see hypocrisy in Trump's response to L.A. protests

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Source: CBS News

Updated on: June 9, 2025 / 10:59 PM EDT


"People are still traumatized by January 6. Not just the officers. Everyone who watched it. That hasn't changed," said former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who responded to the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Dunn and some of the other victims of the U.S. Capitol siege are angry about the Trump administration's public statements and response to this weekend's unrest in Los Angeles, accusing top officials and the president of hypocrisy. They point to the stark difference between the aggressive response of the president and his top aides against those who allegedly assaulted police in Los Angeles, compared to their staunch defense of those who admitted beating and gassing police on Jan. 6. The disparity risks inflaming the already heated controversy in California.

"Trump still calls January 6 a 'day of love' and it's total bulls***," Dunn told CBS News. "Hypocrisy is the key word," he said. "Trump thinks anything done in his name is OK. Jan. 6 was done in his name, so our officers don't matter."

Some of the Trump administration's top national security leaders have issued forceful public statements criticizing the people accused of confronting and assaulting police in Los Angeles, amid a weekend of unrest over federal immigration raids. Those statements are stirring anger or frustration by Capitol siege victims, who are still outraged by the pardons President Trump issued to more than 1,500 Capitol riot defendants — including approximately 600 accused of assaulting police.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-officers-los-angeles-protests/

[Escurumbele]

1. Come on, there is hypocrisy on everything these thugs do and say, Democrats need to find a way to act forcefully to

stop some of the madness, it seems the thugs just push forward without any resistance. Talk is cheap, talk by itself doesn't produce results.

There has to be someone who can put some sense on the brass of the military, obeying illegal orders is treason, which is not what the military signed up for, the signed up to defend the country against foreign and domestic enemies.

[Walleye]

2. Kash Patel is all self-righteous about protecting cops. Makes me sick. It's infuriating.

To hear him telling it just touching a police with a finger, makes you guilty of a felony. Except if it’s being done in support of maga of course

[Bayard]

3. He says:

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers." But beating, and trying to kill officers on Jan. 6 was a-okay. He watched that with glee.

[republianmushroom]

4. Simple, those involved it the insurrection in DC

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were white. This is not hypocrisy, this is republican "RACISM" plain and damn simple.