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Mandela Barnes: “He called those folks patriots. He called them tourists, the…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 32:21

Rather than providing the manpower, he incited two more nights of riots that's a pretty miserable record when it comes to Mr. Barnes. You have every right to respond to that. Exactly. It has to be said that He called those folks patriots. He called them tourists, the people who were beating up police officers in the United States Capitol. the people that, that were there to protect him. He said he wasn't afraid. He said if they were Black Lives Matter or Antifa, he may have been afraid, but because they were the people who he riled up, of course he wasn't afraid. (32:21–32:29)

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Asserts that [the other speaker] referred to the January 6th Capitol attackers as patriots and tourists.

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