Rep. Ruben Gallego, who just entered Arizona's 2024 Senate race, hired campaign staffers who have a history of anti-police rhetoric.
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania during his successful midterm campaign, will work as a consultant for Gallego.
"We don’t have to imagine this. We’ve seen black people with no weapons getting the s--- beat out of them for peacefully protesting all over the country. The police are most certainly not standing by and watching," she wrote on Twitter.She also critiqued law enforcement for their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Brian Sicknick, a 42-year-old Capitol Police officer, was pepper-sprayed during the chaos and died the next day after suffering from two thromboembolic strokes. Four other officers who responded to the riot committed suicide in the months following.Chuck Rocha, a strategist brought onto Gallego's campaign, also tweeted in 2020 that the"trauma" caused by police should not be forgotten and accused law enforcement of beating and bullying people based on their race.
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