Dems who denounced Jan 6 riot condemn ‘all violence against police’ amid campus clashes

House Democrats who furiously condemned attacks connected constabulary during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot astatine the U.S. Capitol are besides speaking retired against constabulary being injured astatine the anti-Israel protests presently raging astatine universities crossed the country.

Fox News Digital reached retired to each the remaining members of the now-defunct House prime committee connected January 6 arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. – each Democrats who led disapproval of however cops were treated successful 2021 – to inquire whether they would widen the aforesaid condemnation to those attacking constabulary connected assemblage campuses. 

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a subordinate of the committee, told Fox News Digital that she condemned each attacks connected instrumentality enforcement but panned comparisons to the Capitol riot.

"I condemn attacks connected constabulary officers, afloat stop. At the Capitol and connected campuses," Lofgren said. "It’s worthy noting that what is happening connected assemblage campuses is not aimed astatine stopping the peaceful transportation of powerfulness oregon threatening our antiauthoritarian strategy of government, truthful determination is not a nonstop equivalency. Any effort to sanitize the events connected January 6th is simply a malicious one."

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House Democratic Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Swalwell and Bennie Thompson are speaking retired against attacks connected police. (Getty Images)

Swalwell told Fox News Digital, "I condemn each unit against constabulary officers."

Similarly, a root acquainted with the reasoning of the erstwhile Jan. 6 committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said helium besides condemns immoderate signifier of violence.

It comes aft reports of constabulary officers being injured during anti-Israel protests astatine the University of Madison-Wisconsin, the University of Utah, and Emerson College successful Boston, arsenic good arsenic convulsive clashes betwixt students and constabulary astatine the University of California astatine Los Angeles.

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Hundreds of students protestation extracurricular the Palestine Solidarity Encampment connected the field of UCLA successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published past twelvemonth recovered that 114 Capitol Police officers were reported injured during the Capitol riot. One serviceman died connected the country of earthy causes, and 4 much who were astatine the country committed termination successful the 7 months aft the riot.

A spokesperson for Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., would not straight measurement successful connected whether Schiff condemns the caller attacks against constabulary specifically, but pointed Fox News Digital to earlier statements speaking retired against attacks connected Jewish students.

"Over the past weeks, from Columbia University to UCLA and acold excessively galore campuses successful between, galore of those demonstrations person turned violent, and created unsafe and wholly unsustainable learning environments for each students. We’ve seen explicit, repeated targeting and intimidation of Jewish students – galore of whom person been blocked from entering buildings oregon called unspeakable things connected the ground of their religion and background. This is patently unacceptable and indispensable end," Schiff said successful 1 of the statements flagged.

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More than 100 Capitol Police officers were reported injured connected Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Pelosi's bureau did not respond to aggregate requests for comment, nor did the offices of House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., oregon Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., contempt each 3 condemning attacks connected constabulary during the Jan. 6 riot.

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In an October 2022 Jan. 6 committee hearing, Aguilar accused the pro-Trump protesters of "violently attacking the efforts of the brave men and women successful instrumentality enforcement trying to defy the mob."

Raskin said successful a connection connected the one-year day of Jan. 6, "The attempted coup and insurrection left 150 instrumentality enforcement officers injured, wounded, traumatized oregon dead. Anyone who denies oregon minimizes this unprecedented battle connected instrumentality enforcement tin ne'er telephone himself oregon herself ‘pro-law enforcement.’ That’s conscionable governmental fraud."