House Dem Claims ‘Mostly White’ Jan. 6 ‘Insurrectionists’ Are Being Coddled

Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is dismissing her Republican colleagues’ concerns about the treatment of defendants from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Crockett and Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) joined Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other House Republicans on a trip to the jail where defendants from the riot are being held.

During a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Crockett said, “We know that these MAGA Republicans have a problem with the truth. In fact, that’s why we are coddling these Jan. 6 insurrectionists.”

“The fact that, you know, they want to go in. And these people, some of them which were attempting murder, and they want to have a conversation about how comfortable they are. They want to have a conversation about whether or not their iPads are working or if they have enough time on their iPads,” she continued.

Crockett went on:

“As someone who’s been a public defender, let me tell you something, they know nothing about what bad conditions are, and I’m going to clarify that after I can see with my own two eyes. But in the state of Texas, we don’t even have air conditioning in our prisons, and we are, once again, in the state of Texas, so we’ve had inmates die from overheating.”

Finally, the congresswoman added, “The idea that these folks should engage somehow in a real conversation now that Jan. 6ers, mostly white folk, are saying that these accommodations don’t work for them when Black and brown folk have been trying to have a real conversation around what prison accommodations should look like if we are just going to be humane is laughable.”

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Earlier this week, Greene tweeted, “I’m leading a bipartisan delegation from the Oversight Committee to the DC Jail on Friday.”