It’s what we’ve all been saying for nearly two years now. The response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol would have looked drastically different if rioters had been Black. William Joseph Walker, the House Sergeant-at-Arms, who was the head of the D.C. National Guard at the time, echoes that same sentiment.
“I’m African American. Child of the sixties. I think it would have been a vastly different response if those were African Americans trying to breach the Capitol,” Walker told congressional investigators, in the interview transcript was released on Tuesday. “As a career law enforcement officer, part-time soldier, last five years full but, but a law enforcement officer my entire career, the law enforcement response would have been different.” Read more.
