Thursday, March 28, 2024

Congressional Carnage: Cedric Richmond Destroys Matt Gaetz on House Floor (Full Video)

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Rep. Cedric Richmond and Rep. Matt Gaetz

*As the House of Representatives held a virtual markup of the proposed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a heated argument broke out between Rep. Cedric Richmond and Rep. Matt Gaetz .

The fight started after he interrupted Richmond, an African American Democrat who was in the middle of explaining how his white colleagues can’t fathom what it’s like to be a black man in America.

Gaetz, famously prone to theatrics (he’s the white Republican who mocked mask-wearing colleagues during the early days of COVID-19 by wearing a gas mask on the House floor), interrupted Richmond to ask if he’s suggesting that his white male GOP colleagues don’t have black children, saying, “Because you reflected on your black son and you said none of us can understand…”

Richmond cut him off, yelling “Matt! Stop! I’m not about to get sidetracked about the color of our children!”

After reclaiming his time like Rep. Maxine Waters, Richmond told Gaetz: “It is not about the color of your kids. It’s about black males, black people in the streets that are getting killed. And if one of them happens to be your kid, I’m concerned about him, too. And clearly I’m more concerned about him than you are.”

Gaetz chose that moment to pitch a fit, shouting, “You’re claiming you’re more concerned about my family than I am? Who in the hell do you think you are?”

The two went back and forth for the next minute-and-a-half.

Watch the whole exchange below:

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