evidence: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently from the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," he said. [...] The Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC had been faced with rows of masked National Guard troops at the Lincoln Memorial in June, as Trump promised to crack down on what he called lawlessness by "hoodlums" and "thugs". [...] The DC Police Department said on Thursday it had arrested 68 people in connection with the Capitol unrest. In comparison, nearly 300 were arrested there the evening police cleared Black Lives Matter protesters from near the White House.