'White privilege on display': police hypocrisy condemned after pro-Trump insurgence

Social media users lambaste president and compare police treatment of racial justice protesters with response to mob

Many Americans and people around the world watched in horror as a mob of Donald Trump supporters rushed the US Capitol in Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon, wreaking fear and chaos with seemingly little resistance from police on Capitol Hill.

The events inside the building quickly unfolded on social media as tweets poured out from concerned members of Congress and images of the insurgents inside the Capitol went viral.