Several PA House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 | Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to PA’s House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and walked out

“I heard some hissing and I saw about eight to 10 of my Republican colleagues walk out angrily as they were announced as police officers from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,” state Rep. Arvind Venkat (D) said in a phone interview Thursday. “I was shocked and appalled,” he added. According to Venkat, the commotion lasted about five minutes.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod,
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Pennsylvania is really America in a microcosm. Mainly in that I’m ashamed by it.

LordCrom,

Name the GOP cowards that were booing.

Pat_Riot,
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The party of Back the Blue, ladies and gentlemen (and everyone else too). Witness the party of law and order.

APassenger,

Law and order never meant what many heard.

Law and order keeps people in their place. It’s an argument for an old status quo.

It never meant following or enforcing the laws. It’s privilege saying it doesn’t want to budge.

Glytch,

A shame that the article doesn’t name and shame which Republicans walked out. I get that it’s harder to tell who booed (apparently a lot of them), but it shouldn’t be that hard to tell which ones left.

BigMacHole,

Republicans support the Police!

MagicShel,

That’s so disgraceful. Why don’t they boo service members who fought and died to defend this country, just like those officers?

silence7,

Republicans do that kind of thing too.

MagicShel,

Those stupid fuckers are going to lose the military vote that has been theirs for decades. I already saw a massive difference in political stance between the 90’s and the 2010’s (could be due to primarily working with enlisted in the 90’s and officers in 10’s) and it’s really only a razor thin veil of ignorance that keeps them believing republicans take take their side more than democrats. That veil is going to break.

APassenger,

Republicans honor sacrifice by making sure it’s big. They’ll send you to war and complain about VA costs.

don,

The Democrats should boo and hiss those degenerate Republican lawmakers any time they so much as even show their shit-stained faces, until the degenerates leave.

Dagwood222,

Back the Blue?

0110010001100010,
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Only when they are beating up minorities apparently.

snooggums,
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Also white people who protest alongside minorities, since they are clearly traitors to their race.

/s just in case

Theprogressivist,
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Back the blue while simultaneously decrying big government.

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