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Marco Rubio: “City governments all across the country simply refused to…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Rubio delivers remarks on far-left political terrorism

Published | Video Starts at 05:56

It is why, during those George Floyd, so called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America's great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees. City governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror [during the George Floyd protests]. It is the reason for the now infamous image, maybe you all recall this, of a news anchor from a very prominent agency. A news anchor standing in a neighborhood consumed in flames. (05:56–06:05)

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Asserts that city governments did not prosecute individuals involved in violence during the George Floyd protests.

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