Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) doubled down on his call for federal law enforcement officials to be sent to U.S. cities amid protests over racial inequality as he compared the demonstrators to the “insurrectionists” who started the Civil War and seceded from the United States.
“The federal government cannot allow anarchists and insurrectionists to destroy federal courthouses, federal buildings, or other federal property. These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the Union in 1861 in South Carolina and tried to take over Fort Sumter,” Cotton said Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” referring to protests in the Oregon city.
“Just like President Lincoln wouldn’t stand for that, the federal government today can not stand for the vandalism, the firebombing or any attacks on federal property,” he added. “It is right to send federal law enforcement in to defend federal property and federal facilities.”
The senator’s comments on Fox News follow an op-ed he wrote last month, published by The New York Times, calling for a military response to the nationwide protests sparked by the police-involved death of George Floyd.
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