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Mike Rogers: “We can't have separate standards for the people who were…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Michigan U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Rogers Defends Jan 6 Probe

Published | Video Starts at 00:55

When you assault a police officer, you are a criminal. Correct? When you break a window to get into a place you are not authorized to be in, you are a criminal. We can't, We can't have separate standards for the people who were rioting and breaking things that I thought should go to jail and have a separate standard for somebody that broke into the Capitol and assaulted [police officers]. you know, they used mace on a police officer. They hit him with a, those people are criminals and needed to be pursued. I have no, we shouldn't even think about that. (00:55–01:07)

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Asserts that there should be a single standard of justice for rioters and Capitol assailants.

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