When They Complain About a ‘Two-Tiered Justice System,’ Republicans Co-opt ‘Real History,’ Congressman Says
From Emmett Till, to Breonna Taylor and more, Black Americans have been victims of a real separate justice, Rep Frost says
When Donald Trump and other Republicans bemoan a supposed “two-tiered justice system” to defend his conduct, they are, in fact, co-opting the “real history” of the civil rights movement, according to a Democratic congressman.
The former president and his allies complain often that the criminal indictments stacking up against him are the results of a “two-tiered” system of justice.
When they do so, they are, in fact, co-opting the language and the history of the American civil rights movement, according to Rep Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.).
Trump, currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president, has regularly invoked being the victim of a separate system of justice to explain his growing legal peril, including multiple criminal indictments.
“Since January 6, these Republicans and Trump have complained about a two-tiered justice system, co-opting the language of the decades-long civil rights movement for black lives and black freedom, a movement that they actually are actively looking to eliminate,” Frost said. “There is a two-tiered justice system. But it’s not about Democrats versus Republicans. This language — ‘two-tiered justice system’ — has a real history. It has a real history of Emmett Till.”
Till was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, and whose murderers were acquitted at the time.
“It has a real history with Breonna Taylor. It has a real history with George Floyd, the Central Park Five. Derek Diaz, a young man who was just an unarmed young man who was just killed in central Florida about a week ago,” Frost added, recounting several more-recent examples of victims of a racist two-tiered justice system.
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