I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way.
It's time to put an end to this nonsense.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 16, 2024
Per usual with Republicans, this isn’t just a bloodthirsty and twisted response to the pro-Palestinian libs blocking traffic in New York and San Francisco on Monday, it’s also the opposite of what he tweeted after his shitshow of a New York Times op-ed nearly four years ago.
This is false and offensive.
I called for using military force as a backup—only if police are overwhelmed—to stop riots, not to be used against protesters.
If @nytimes has any decency left, they should retract this smear. https://t.co/9qJLgWSwlP
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 7, 2020
So 2020 Tom Cotton said military troops should kill protestors, then don’t kill protestors, only rioters, and then 2024 Tom Cotton said average citizens should kill protestors.