Tom Cotton: Antifa rioters won't stop because Joe Biden is president

Rioters vandalize buildings in Seattle, Portland and Denver on 
inauguration day

Sen. Tom Cotton said Wednesday that renewed Antifa riots in 
Portland and Seattle - following the inauguration of President 
Joe Biden - prove the point he made over the summer that force 
is needed to maintain law and order.

Cotton, R-Ark., said he remembers the media and Democrats 
blaming former President Donald Trump for Antifa violence in 
Democrat-run cities just a few months ago.

Speaking on "Fox & Friends," he said that no matter what side a 
violent mob is on, they must be put down with force, whether 
it's Antifa or the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. 
Capitol on January 6.

SEATTLE PROTESTERS OPPOSE BIDEN AND POLICE, VANDALIZE BUILDINGS, 
CAUSE OTHER DAMAGE: REPORTS

SEN. TOM COTTON: I remember the media and Democrats blaming all 
this Antifa violence on Donald Trump. Yet here we have Joe Biden 
in the White House and Antifa is still rampaging in the streets 
of Seattle and Portland and Denver. It proves a point I made two 
months ago, two weeks ago. When you have a mob using violence 
for a political end, it doesn't matter what slogan they're 
chanting or flag they are waving. They have to be met with 
force. And force has to be used to deter that violence and if it 
breaks out, to stop that violence. That has to be the standard 
that we apply no matter what slogan a mob is chanting.

[...]

These mobs that we see on the streets of Seattle and Portland 
and Denver that represent Antifa - which I guess maybe is not 
just an idea as some Democrats have said - ultimately what they 
want is to overthrow America. They hate America, they are not 
rampaging the streets because Joe Biden is president. They 
weren't doing it last summer because Donald Trump was president. 
They are doing it because they hate America.

Antifa protesters in Portland clashed with authorities Wednesday 
as they gathered to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden, 
forcing officers to retreat and taking at least one police 
bicycle, authorities said.

A crowd of up to 150 people gathered at Revolution Hall around 2 
p.m. local time and marched to the headquarters of the 
Democratic Party of Oregon, Portland police Sgt. Kevin Allen 
said. The so-called J20 protest was a demonstration against 
Biden and law enforcement.

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In total, eight adults were arrested for crimes ranging from 
rioting and possession of a destructive device to reckless 
burning.

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