A Republican lawmaker shared a video where he praised counter-protesters at the University of Mississippi who made racist taunts toward a Black woman.
Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference, at the Capitol in Washington, July 18, 2023. To Collins, China is a bigger …
About two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the Ole Miss campus on Thursday, but they were quickly outnumbered when a group of hundreds of counter-protesters came to demonstrate against them. A video shared by Rep. Mike Collins, Georgia Republican, on X showed a mass of mostly white counter protestors taunting a black woman by making monkey noises, chanting “lock her up,” reciting the National Anthem.Mr. Collins is no stranger to posting caustic material on social media — the lawmaker came under fire earlier this year for sharing an antisemitic social media account’s post pointing out that a reporter was Jewish.
The lawmaker was also one of less than 100 members who voted against a bill earlier this week that would have broadened the definition of antisemitism following the wave of so-called antisemitic protests on college campuses.
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