Democrats Back to Supporting Rioting Again

I don’t want to unite with those responsible for the insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. I want us to unite in holding them accountable.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 12, 2021

“A riot is the language of the unheard.” - Dr. MLK Jr.

I want to talk to my constituents in the window. Their lives and their rights must be protected.

My team and I are working to ensure that the urgent needs of people who are incarcerated are not ignored. https://t.co/wMq8ecyLQ2

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) February 7, 2021

Inmates at St. Louis jail set fires, break out windows in disturbance over concerns about COVID pandemic https://t.co/GoN1lNvRZ2pic.twitter.com/ZrPfuLPgTB

— John A. Moreno (@morenojohn) February 6, 2021

A faulty locking system allowed inmates at a downtown city jail to escape their cells Saturday before freeing other "very violent people" who then caused widespread damage on a floor of the jail, including smashing exterior windows and sending flaming debris to the sidewalk below, city officials said.

About 115 inmates took control of the fourth floor of the City Justice Center, where they set fires, clogged toilets, flooded parts of the floor and caused other damage, officials said.

[...] "These were just very angry, defiant, very violent people that we house at the Justice Center," the city's director of public safety, Jimmie Edwards, told reporters after the uprising was brought under control about 10 a.m. "No one at the Justice Center is housed for a misdemeanor, a municipal offense or a low-level felony. Everybody housed at the Justice Center is housed there because of very serious offenses like assault on police officers and homicide and things of that sort."