Hours after a crowd stormed the U.S. Capitol building to delay the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, President Donald Trump still did not condemn the riots.
Trump has in the past been quick to condemn both riots and peaceful protests, especially in cases where police violence and racism were the target.
Warriors star Steph Curry, who has never been one to invent words about Trump, has found an example of the president who shows he is capable of condemning riots – if the conditions are right.
“There’s literally a tweet for everything. Cat got your tongue today? ‘Curry wrote and quoted a message from Trump this summer suggesting a minimum of ten years’ imprisonment should be proposed for protesters damaging federal buildings.
There is literally a tweet for everything. Cat got your tongue today? https://t.co/yKd8dgm2wn
– Stephen Curry (@ StephenCurry30) 6 January 2021
Some rioters at the Capitol smashed windows to get inside the building, and reports indicate more damage was done after the mob stormed the corridors and both chambers of Congress, forcing elected officials and staff to to evacuate.
49ers cornerback Richard Sherman wondered aloud how the police would have treated crowds of rioters entering the Capitol building if the rioters were black.
‘There are certain things my brain could never imagine …. and one of them is black people storming a government building and taking things without fatal consequences. But it’s just my brain, “he said. tweeted.
In a separate pos, Sherman referred to the mob as ‘terrorists’, who described those who branded the Capitol as an act of domestic terrorism.
Klay Thompson and Steve Kerr made others speak, and again criticized posts in which the president and interrogation the intelligence of the rioters. Kerr shared a report by sports commentator Jemele Hill, who like Sherman pointed to the race of the rioters as a reason for the lack of immediate significant police backlash.
“Let’s just be clear about something: The reason Capitol police are slow to respond is because they give these white people the doubt and treat it like a joke,” Hill said. wrote. “Their response is not the same because they see black people as a threat that needs to be eliminated.”
Kerr also shared an opinion piece by David Frum, The Atlantic, calling for Trump to be removed immediately Wednesday night via the 1807 Insurrection Act.
As for Trump, he tweeted several times throughout the afternoon but never condemned the uprising and told his supporters who carried it out that “we love you”. He also continued to falsely claim that the election was stolen from him, and Twitter eventually closed his account for the next 12 hours.
The Warriors incidentally have a game on national television at 7 p.m. They will face the Los Angeles Clippers.
Two weeks from Wednesday, Joe Biden – who endorses Curry during the 2020 Democratic National Conference – will be inaugurated to take down Trump’s Oval Office.