Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at BLM protesters getting $500 fine

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized on Monday the criminal repercussions of two Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters receiving a $500 fine as she compared it to the repercussions of those involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot are receiving.

On January 6, hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to stop Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory from being certified by Congress, which Donald Trump had repeatedly claimed, without evidence, was stolen from him. More than 1,100 people hailing from all 50 states have been charged with a variety of alleged offenses in relation to their presence at the grounds of Congress that day. Greene, a vocal Trump ally who has denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election and visited January 6 defendants in jail, previously claimed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is out to get Trump and his supporters.

Meanwhile, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BLM movement gained a massive surge in national traction with protests seen across the country after Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd in 2020. The movement originally started to protest police brutality in 2013 with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black teenager in Florida.