Michael Rapaport on Jan. 6 insurrection: “If this was Black people, these would be dead bodies”

Actor Michael Rapaport shared a post this morning, Jan. 6, to mark “Insurrectionist Day,” a day he refers to as “the most embarrassing day in American History.”

Rapaport called out the lightweight police response and racial injustice of the event, implying that if the attackers at the Capitol had been Black and not white, there would have been dead bodies.

“Let me tell you something. Rodney King, George Floyd, all the other people who have been abused, killed, harassed, by the cops — Black people — for nothing. Look at this shit, if this was Black people these would be dead bodies. This is a fucking shame. If this was Black people, Black people would get fucking arrested, harassed. This is the Capitol Building of the United States, and no one had a knee on their neck, no one is getting batoned, nobody’s in the back of a police car with no water. What the fuck is going on here?”
—Michael Rapaport

See Michael Rapaport’s Insurrectionist Day video below.

Happy Insurrectionist Day!!!!
The most embarrassing day in American History.#DayoftheDumb @iamrapaport is always disrupting https://t.co/1tPPHROSZV pic.twitter.com/MsCJZeQ860
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) January 6, 2022

Michael Rapaport on Jan. 6 insurrection: “If this was Black people, these would be dead bodies.”

The United States Capital attack, caused by a protest encouraged by Donald Trump, resulted in five deaths, many injured, including 138 police officers. Four of the responding officers committed suicide in the seven months following the attack.

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