Congressional staff in Washington raised their hands as armed police secured the CapitolJoe Biden said there was no question that the “domestic terrorists” who laid siege to the Capitol were treated more lightly than Black Lives Matter demonstrators as he placed the blame for “one of the darkest days in the history of our nation” directly on President Trump. The president-elect said the ease with which Mr Trump’s supporters had breached the Capitol’s defences and the relative paucity of arrests displayed an America in which two standards of justice were at work. SponsoredIntroducing Merrick Garland, a previous Supreme Court nominee rejected by Republicans, as his choice for attorney-general, a palpably angry Mr Biden, 78, joined growing criticism of the police response on Wednesday. Joe Biden called the Capitol siege one of "darkest days" in US history“No one can tell me that if it had been a group of

Source: The Times January 08, 2021 00:03 UTC