During a recent segment on CNN, Don Lemon told Chris Cuomo “I’m sick of people comparing, you can’t compare what happened this summer to what happened at the Capitol.”
Lemon continued “It’s two different things. One was built on people, on racial justice, on criminal justice, right, on reform, on police not beating up – or police treating people of color differently than they do Whites. OK? That was not a lie. Those are facts. Go look at them. What happened at the Capitol was built on a lie, perpetrated by the president and the people who support him.”
“Those things are not comparable. So they should not be doing that. And stop this whataboutism,” he added.
Our riots were cooler than yours: During their handoff tonight, Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo argued that the BLM riots they encouraged over the summer were more righteous than the Capitol Hill attack, thus they're not "apples to apples." pic.twitter.com/E03nyiGKRI
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 13, 2021
Moments later, Fredo doubled down on the notion that the BLM riots were righteous by saying that those who compared them to the Capitol attack “don’t believe that black people are justified” in their actions. pic.twitter.com/jMsG5Wslxi
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 13, 2021