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COURIER L 2 IFE, JANUARY 15-21, 2021
BY BEN VERDE
Hundreds of anti-Trump
protesters marched through
Brooklyn on Thursday to
call for the president’s impeachment
after his supporters
launched an insurrection
at the US Capitol Building.
Beginning with a rally at
Barclays Center, the demonstrators
marched down Flatbush
Avenue to the Prospect
Park West apartment building
of incoming Senate majority
Leader Chuck Schumer
— where they demanded the
legislator act to both remove
Trump and expel the Republican
politicians they claim
are equally responsible for
perpetuating the myth of a
stolen election.
“We are here today to demand
that the people responsible
for aiding and abetting
the white supremacist terrorism
that we saw yesterday be
held accountable,” said New
York City Democratic Socialists
of America Co-Chair
Chi Anunwa outside the Fort
Greene arena.
The idea of a potential impeachment
has already gathered
signifi cant support in
both legislative chambers,
including from Schumer
and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi.
Demonstrators at the
night’s rally also blasted the
soft approach taken by the
Capitol Police toward the pro-
Trump rioters to the paramilitary
response to Black
Lives Matter protests over
the summer — which the
demonstrators chalked up to
the fact that the crowd in DC
was predominantly-white.
“We know if those insurrectionists
and rioters had
but an ounce of melanin in
their skin, they’d still be
cleaning up the blood on
the fl oor and the steps,” said
Public Advocate Jumaane
Williams, who earlier Thursday
Crowds gathered at Barclays Center Thursday to denounce President Donald Trump’s actions which led to the
incursion of the US Capitol, and call for his impeachment. Photos by Dean Moses and Lloyd Mitchell
joined with a cadre of local
elected offi cials calling
for an offi cial investigation
into the behavior of law enforcement
tasked with protecting
the Capitol from destruction
and violence. “We
wouldn’t have even made it
to the steps.”
But, comparing Wednesday’s
riot with the summer’s
Black Lives Matter protests
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