Rand Paul

We need to get this straight so we can have some kind of awareness of people go to a protest.

They know what the rules of the game are.

And we need to know going forward that there will be some rules.

There needs to be an independent investigation, for goodness sakes.

There has to be an investigation.

If this happened on a police force, the officers

Whether or not they committed anything wrong would immediately be put on administrative leave and there would be an investigation.

But I don't know who trusts an investigation to be done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an assassin, a would-be assassin, a domestic terrorist, saying he was assaulted the police.

How can they be in charge of an independent investigation?

Acknowledge it need to be some money, but we've thrown so much money at this problem that there are just piles of it sitting around that I think people ought to think this through before.

It's not all or none.

I don't want to defund ICE, but I'm not sure I want to give them billions and billions more without any kind of signs of there are going to be some rules of the game and there will be an independent investigation.

You know, I think one of the best things President Trump has done and really people from across the aisle support is removing violent people from our cities.

So I think that's been a good thing largely, but it can't be done with no rules.

And so when people watch that video and the government tells them, well, he was assaulting the police officers, nobody with any objectivity watches that video and believes that's what's happening.

As the man retreats, with each altercation he retreats, and then the woman is thrown violently to the ground, he's thrown to the ground.

No American believes that he was assaulting the officers.

In fact, the opposite appears to be true.

So we have to get some rules of the game, and we can't have the government justifying this type of behavior because the vast majority of Americans think this was unfair, what happened.

The intimation or actually the explicit call to say you don't have a Second Amendment right to carry arms in a protest really flies in the face of most of our Second Amendment community.