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Gabe Evans: “Several days of riots at the Colorado state Capitol late May…”

Featuring: Gabe Evans, Republican | U.S. Representative, Colorado's 8th Congressional District

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Rep. Gabe Evans compares 2020 civil rights protests to January 6th

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But yeah, I'm vaguely familiar with the coverage of on the news and such. Okay, perfect. So just as a brief refresher, again, I appreciate that you're not from Colorado, but as a brief refresher, Several days of riots at the Colorado state Capitol late May 2020, while the legislature was in session, resulting in the legislature having to suspend their business an unprecedented number of times. And in the aftermath of those riots, the Major Cities Chiefs association, so the largest cities in the nation, evaluated the Colorado riots at the state Capitol as the third most violent riots in the nation in terms of officers, injured, weapons, saf. (01:00–01:14)

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Asserts that riots at the Colorado state Capitol in May 2020 caused unprecedented suspensions of legislative business.

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