JOSE DIAZ-BALART: Many are comparing the response of security forces to the assault here at the Capitol with last year´s protests against racism and police brutality. Images like this, where a mob of President Trump followers burst into the Capitol, with the police doing little to prevent their advance. Or this one, where National Guard troops are seen in line without doing ANYTHING. They contrast with the behavior of the police in other protests such as the one in this same city last June, where protesters were harshly repressed with tear gas and rubber bullets, only so that the president could take a picture with a bible in front of a church across the street from the White House. Activists and citizens are denouncing that double standard of security forces and wonder what would have happened if most of the assailants here, at the Capitol, had been Latinos or Blacks. Guadalupe Venegas is with us. Guadalupe, even Joe Biden has commented.
GUADALUPE VENEGAS: Jose, today the president-elect himself, Joe Biden, compared the treatment that Black Lives Matter protesters received last year to what was observed yesterday in the capital.
BIDEN: If that would have been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday.
VENEGAS: “No one can tell me that if they had been people from the BLM group protesting, they would not have been treated differently than we saw yesterday,” President-elect Joe Biden said this afternoon.
FELIPE BENITEZ: Here we saw that security forces were taking selfies with terrorists who attacked our democracy.
VENEGAS: The absence of the national guard may have been serious.
VICENTE GONZALEZ, (D-TX): Definitely, when the Back Lives Matter protest came to the capitol we had, umm, a much larger security show of force.
VENEGAS: These images show an officer trying to drive the protesters away using his baton, while in this video, security officers retire after being threatened and outnumbered. Meanwhile, the world today reacts to images of the assault on the Capitol.
ARTURO VARGAS: The world was aware of the racism that exists in the United States.
VENEGAS: Between Wednesday afternoon and this morning, Washington Metropolitan Police reported the arrest of 62 people compared to the 269 arrests made by the same department on June 1, 2019 (sic) when BLM protests arrived in the capital. Guadalupe Venegas, Telemundo News.