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AFRO Exclusive: Mfume says Capitol attack was ‘lawlessness at its peak’

January 28, 2021

"…It was unlike anything I had ever seen before and just crazy. Words have consequences and we've been saying that for years, everybody has based on the words of Donald Trump…now we see what happens when it gets out of control.

I saw members of the House saying to me, "Oh my God, can you imagine the rage in their faces? I've never seen anything like that." And I said, well, welcome to my world," Mfume said.

I've been looking at crazy White people with that kind of rage for a long, long time. As have most Black people. So, it was lawlessness at its peak….if those were Black people scaling the wall of the Capitol I believe they would have been shot down before they ever got to the top. It was almost as if they were tolerating these people as if they were tourists who were angry," he added.

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