Red State’s Ben Howe Goes on Tweet Storm About Viral Video of a Mom Being Arrested

Lindsey EllefsonDec 22nd, 2016, 6:17 pm
 

All week, we’ve been talking in one way or another about the sort of unity that reaches across traditional party lines. Now that a video of a cop arresting a woman after she tried to report that her seven-year-old had been choked by a white man has gone viral, some of that particular brand of unity is on full display.

Red State‘s senior contributor, Ben Howe, went off about the six-minute clip on Twitter. He was especially furious that the officer had asked the mother if she’d taught her child not to litter after she had told him that he had been choked.

He began his tweetstorm by quoting a tweet from Joy Reid, a media personality whose work could easily be described as the exact opposite of Red State‘s.

Often, it’s the left-leaning public figures like Reid who are quick to jump on and condemn videos like this. Howe referenced that and seemed equally incensed by the idea that conservatives can’t care about police brutality as he was about the brutality that appears to be shown in the video.

It is still too early to know whether his predictions about who, exactly, will defend the officer in the video are true, but it’s worth noting that Howe advocated for a unification against police brutality from the beginning.

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