Scarborough: If U.S. Capitol Rioters Had Been Black 'They Would Have Been Shot in the Face and Killed'

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough sounded off on the riot at the U. S. Capitol earlier this month by a group of President Donald Trump supporters on Monday as he highlighted the efforts by civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.

After saying the country has made “extraordinary progress” when it comes to race, Scarborough doubled down on his belief that had the group of rioters that breached the capitol consisted of black people or Muslims, “they would have been shot” and incarcerated.

“As I said just last week, if those rioters had been from Anacostia, if they had been black, they would have been shot in the face and killed,” Scarborough asserted. “If they had been organizing a protest to disrupt the election and had bragged about that protest co... (Read more)

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