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The Daily Beast reports:
A day after encouraging members of the public to “take matters into their own hands” to deal with peaceful protesters, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is doubling down on his endorsement of mob violence.
The Arkansas Republican shared a video on X on Tuesday morning of climate protesters who were blocking a road in France being grabbed and tossed on the side of the road by angry drivers. “How it should be done,” he captioned the video.
Cotton was apparently unfazed by backlash he received over comments made a day earlier, when he said protesters who blocked part of the Golden Gate Bridge would’ve been tossed off the bridge if it had happened in Arkansas.
Read the full article. Yesterday Cotton also suggested gluing protesters’ hands to the pavement so that their “skin gets ripped off.”
How it should be done:
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 16, 2024
That’s assault and battery. You should be booted from the Senate!
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) April 16, 2024
I believe the protesters are misguided and that blocking highways accomplishes nothing (and makes people resent your cause), but you are advocating for vigilante violence.
Are we a nation of laws or no? Is a sitting US Senator saying we should assault people we disagree with?
— XDH in “Xhe Xand” (@bdh_in_clv) April 16, 2024
Advocating for Americans to engage in violence and commit bodily harm to others isn’t something you’d expect to hear from an American politician. You are a disgrace!
— Glen Carroll (@MrGlenCarroll) April 16, 2024