The Washington Commanders fined Jack Del Rio $100,000 on Friday for comments he made this week downplaying the January 6 Capitol riot and comparing it to the 2020 protests around the death of George Floyd.
Jack Del Rio was talking to Jonathan Allen during a football practice. The photo was taken byLuis M.
The January 6 committee's decision to hold a prime time hearing was criticized by Del Rio, who suggested the government should review the riots after George Floyd was murdered.
The coach called the Capitol storming a "dustup" and insisted he would rather see a hearing on riots in major cities during the summer of 2020.
After issuing an apology, Del Rio said he stood by his comments condemning violence in communities across the country.
Rivera made it clear that the organization would not tolerate any equivilence between those who demanded justice in the wake of George Floyd's murder and those who tried to topple the government.
The responses to Del Rio's comments were mixed. The NAACP president called for Rivera's firing, while right-wing media hailed Del Rio for speaking his mind Dan Bongino's post about Del Rio taking a lot of guts was the fifth most popular link post on the platform over the past week.
The January 6 committee has been hyping its first prime time hearing, which took place on Thursday night. Several new revelations came out at the hearing, including that multiple Republican members of Congress asked for pardons after the rioting, and thatIvanka Trump did not believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The news from the hearing was blasted by Trump in a series of posts on his social media platform.
Donald Trump slammed the committee hearing on truth social.
Riot defendants say Trump asked them to storm the capitol.
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