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Sen. Tom Cotton will introduce a bill to impose stricter federal penalties for violent protesters.
The bill will support Rep. Ken Buck’s bill in the House in response to the Capitol breach and recent West Coast unrest.
The violence being carried out by Antifa should be dealt with the same way as the Capitol rioters, Cotton told Fox News, the Epoch Times reported.
He has been consistently condemning violence and has even released a statement that “insurrection demands forceful response” following the Jan. 6 mayhem in D.C.
Cotton repeated his stance that violence is unacceptable.
“This proves the point I made months ago, proves the point I made two weeks ago, that when you have a mob using violence for political ends, it doesn’t matter what slogan they’re chanting or what flag they’re waving, they have to be met with force and force has to be used to deter that violence, and if it breaks out, to stop that violence,” Cotton said in an interview. “That has to be the standard that we apply, no matter what slogan, a mob is chanting.”
Buck’s bill, which Cotton is supporting, increases the maximum term of imprisonment for the offense of rioting.
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