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Mike Rogers: “When you break a window to get into a place you are not…”

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 00:49

So I must, I'm going to take a very unpopular position here and I'm going to disagree with you, and I'll tell you why. 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 … (00:49–00:55)

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Asserts that breaking a window to enter an unauthorized place constitutes criminal behavior.

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