Today, the nation is rightly being consumed with the issue of police brutality. There's also a little ray of sunshine when it comes to MAGA brutality against police.
One of the Trumpy insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on January 6 has just been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison. It's not just any rioter — it's the guy who assaulted Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died the next day. Good — haul him off to the hoosegow.
There's a lot of injustice and inequality when it comes to law enforcement in this country. Most of it is on one side. We cats have seen bits and pieces of the Tyre Nichols video that the City of Memphis released tonight, and it's sickening. We can't watch all of it. It gives us the same feelings when we see the MAGAts storming the Capitol — outrage, disgust, violation, revulsion. Many Democratic voices, from President Biden down, have spoken out in protest.
But there's been nothing but crickets from Republicans, about either Memphis or January 6. They have precious little to say about how much "blue lives matter" when it comes to the insurrectionists. They've also been silent on the five Memphis officers who killed Tyre Nichols. Is it because the officers are Black? We cats HISS.
(UPDATE: We're not in the habit of quoting former Republicans, but ex-Congressman Joe Walsh has pretty much summed up the Tyre Nichols video: "No one tried to help him. No one. He was dying. He was literally dying. And no one tried to help him. No one." We cats HISS.)
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