WATCH: Tucker Carlson Says If This Was a Normal Country, BLM Protestors Would Be Put Down by Force

Todd Neikirk is a New Jersey-based politics and technology writer.…

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is in its closing days. And the Fox News hosts have been painting the teen out to be some kind of avenging hero.

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 29: Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses ‘Populism and the Right’ during the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. Carlson talked about a large variety of topics including dropping testosterone levels, increasing rates of suicide, unemployment, drug addiction and social hierarchy at the summit, which had the theme ‘The Case for the American Experiment.’ (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by painting Rittenhouse as the victim and the shooters victims as criminals. And according to the Fox host, those protestors should have been put down by the cops in the first place.

Carlson told viewers:

“Well, that’s not a civil rights protest, that’s not people fighting back against depression, systemic racism. That’s just people destroying things they didn’t build. That’s people wrecking our civilization. In no normal country would that be allowed. You’d be put down immediately with force, that’s why we have police. You can’t allow that. because if you do allow that, people will get killed, as they did.”

The irony of the of the statement is how the Fox News host has covered the 1/6 insurrection. Rather than calling out the Trump supporters out for beating Capitol police officers, he has called them patriots. His network even allowed the Carlson to air a special where he claimed the riots were a false flag operation.

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Watch a clip from last night’s show below, courtesy of Fox News and Media Matters:

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Todd Neikirk is a New Jersey-based politics and technology writer. His work has been featured in psfk.com, foxsports.com, and PoliticusUSA. An avid pet lover, he has been known to contribute to Pet Lifestyles Magazine. He enjoys sports, politics, technology, and spending time at the shore with his family.