Why Is Marco Rubio Trying To Hold Hearings About the George Floyd Protests of 2020?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

If the Republicans take back control of the Senate in a couple of weeks, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has one particular thing on his mind to do. In an interview on Fox News, Rubio floated the idea that Republicans could hold hearings over the George Floyd protests that occurred during the summer of 2020, according to Newsweek.

“We have to use our oversight role that we have,” Rubio said. “We should have hearings, for example, on the riots of the summer of 2020. “There’s been no accountability about the summer of 2020. Who was behind it? How much did the political rhetoric lend itself to it? For example, these efforts to bail people out of jail in 2020, how many people did that encourage to come back out and do that all over again?”

The thing “behind” the protests of 2020 was the murder of a Black man while he was in police custody. There’s no “political rhetoric” to the number of African Americans adversely impacted by the continued denial of meaningful police reform. People kept coming out to protest because of the lack of Congressional reform to address police brutality against Black and people of color. Sen. Rubio knows why the protests occurred. He even acknowledged this in his own words when he spoke on the Senate floor that same summer.

From Sen. Rubio’s website:

“After Mr. Floyd’s horrific murder at the hands of a man sworn to uphold the law, our nation has seen justified anger. As I said here two weeks ago, it is a moment that calls for not just “police reform”; it calls for a full reckoning with racial inequities that still plague our nation.”

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-marco-rubio-trying-hold-151000687.html

[Walleye]

1. Maybe he should start by finding out who umbrella man is

[sop]

2. Rubio will try to create an equivalence between BLM protests and the 1/6 insurrection.

[world wide wally]

3. Rubio's words are meaningless

[Boomerproud]

4. The 1st witness can be my Congresswoman Joyce Beatty

who was pepper sprayed by Columbus police.

[Gore1FL]

5. He is trying to excite racists. nt

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. Bazinga..that is all!!!!

[tishaLA]

7. it's (in part) to smear VP Harris

repubs go nuts over her efforts to help with getting bail for suspects and they want to make her name synonymous with 'soft on crime.' Meanwhile Democrats accused her of being "Kamala the cop," so she can't win.

[blm]

8. Yes. Let's start with the murders of law enforcement

by RightWing extremists. And the shootings into police precinct in Minneapolis.



Feds say far-right group coordinated attack on Minneapolis police precinct during protest

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522509-feds-say-far-right-group-coordinated-attack-on-minneapolis-police-precinct/

Far-right ‘boogaloo boys’ linked to killing of California law officers and other violence

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-17/far-right-boogaloo-boys-linked-to-killing-of-california-lawmen-other-violence

[maxrandb]

9. Because he knows the GQP voters are racists. NT