Rep Al Green ejected from Trump's State of the Union after holding a ' Black People Aren't Apes' sign

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Rep Al Green ejected from Trump's State of the Union after holding a ' Black People Aren't Apes' sign - Lemmy.World

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Was he even being disruptive, other than holding a sign? MTG was screeching during one of Biden’s and wasn’t escorted out.

Also, a republican trying to tear the sign out of his hands and then all of them chanting “USA” as Green is led out is fucking wild. I thought they were pretending to not be racists? Is that gone now?

actually I think I just watched an old West Wing episode about this recently. I beleive there is a rule about when and where you can carry plaquards, signs and posters, so he likely had to be removed by the rules but was doing it deliberately.

Not a criticism of the method, just explanatory.

Yep. It was 100% planned beforehand, and house leadership knew it would happen. The same thing would happen in the same way if he were carrying a sign that said “white lives matter.”