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US Capitol riot highlights contrast in police attitudes to Black and White protesters, says expert

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Wallace Ford is a professor of Public Administration at Medgar Evers College in New York. He says the police response in Washington DC highlights the disparity between the way Black and White people in the US are treated by law enforcement.

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