Alan Dershowitz: Jan. 6 riots were not insurrection, but a protest gone wrong

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January 6 riots will always be seen in a negative light, even though it was not an insurrection but a protest gone wrong, President Donald Trump’s former attorney Alan Dershowitz says.   #Trump #January6th

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00:00Looking back at January 6th, and just to wrap up this segment,

00:05it's been described by some people as being one of the darkest days

00:08in modern US history.

00:10Do you think, as some in the Biden administration suggested,

00:13we're going to see over the next four years

00:15an attempt to sort of rewrite exactly what happened on that day?

00:22In a democracy, you can't rewrite history

00:24because the media has the right to present its alternative narrative.

00:28I think that January 6th will always be seen by decent people

00:33in a negative light, but it was exaggerated.

00:36It wasn't an insurrection.

00:38It was a protest gone wrong and exaggerated,

00:42just like I think the Black Lives Matter protests

00:45were in Oregon and other places.

00:49There's equal fault on all sides here.

00:52And what we have to do is move us back to a time where protests are fine.

00:56Indeed, they're encouraged.

00:58It's part of our First Amendment to have protests,

01:00but not violent protests and not intimidation, not threats.

01:05So I'm hoping that the new administration will keep its word

01:09about the end of lawfare

01:11and move us toward more democratic forms of protests

01:17and more equal application of the law.

01:18I think that's possible.

01:19I think we learned a very, very hard lesson

01:22from both January 6th and the application of lawfare.

01:26And I hope that lesson is learned and applied.

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