MAGA Home Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene downplayed the demise of Tyre Nichols this week whereas additionally calling for an investigation into the demise of Ashli Babbitt, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
Greene’s stunning remarks got here on Tuesday as she sat for a Home Oversight Committee listening to alongside Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and different Home Republicans on the panel.
Though the 48-year-old Georgia Home Rep. denounced Nichols’ demise by the hands of 5 Memphis, Tennessee law enforcement officials as “tragic,” she additionally blamed the 29-year-old’s homicide on the “Democrat-controlled” metropolis he died in.
Greene additionally stated Nichols’ demise wasn’t “a problem of racism” as a result of each Nichols and the 5 officers who beat him to demise are Black.
“I watched the video and it was tragic and very troublesome to look at,” the congresswoman stated Tuesday. “I might additionally wish to level out that that metropolis is Democrat-controlled, and the 5 officers who’ve been arrested and charged are black, and I feel that this isn’t a problem of racism or something like that.”
“I feel that the choose and the jury and the trial must work out what occurred there,” she added.
Greene then shifted her remarks to the demise of Ashli Babbitt, the 36-year-old Air Power veteran who was killed after storming the U.S. Capitol constructing on January 6, 2021 whereas making an attempt to illegally break into the Home Speaker’s foyer.
In line with Greene, Congress has did not “tackle” the difficulty of Babbitt’s demise. The Georgia congresswoman additionally referred to as on Comer to launch an investigation into the “civil rights abuses” suffered by these like Babbitt who broke into the Capitol roughly two years in the past.
“There’s a lady on this room whose daughter was murdered on January 6. Ashli Babbitt. And Ashli Babbitt has – there’s by no means been a trial,” Greene stated as Babbitt’s mom sat toes away. “As a matter of truth, nobody has cared about the person who shot and killed her.”
“I imagine that there are numerous those who got here into the Capitol on January 6 whose civil rights and liberties are being violated closely,” Greene continued. “And this committee will, I hope, Mr. Chairman, look into these civil rights abuses, as a result of they’re occurring in a jail proper right here on this metropolis.”