{"id":1509212,"date":"2022-06-09T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509212"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:51:05","slug":"jack-del-rio-apologizes-for-jan-6-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-del-rio-apologizes-for-jan-6-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Del Rio Apologizes For Jan. 6 Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjack-del-rio-apologizes-for-jan-6-comment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509212&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-09-at-9.40.21-AM-e1654782102395.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio apologized Wednesday night after he referred to the Jan. 6 riots as a \u201cdust up\u201d while defending an earlier tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made comments earlier today in referencing the attack that took place on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Referencing that situation as a dust up was irresponsible and negligent and I am sorry,\u201d Del Rio tweeted. \u201cI stand by my comments condemning violence in communities across the country. I say that while also expressing my support as an American citizen for peaceful protest in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wm29NXGGAn\">pic.twitter.com\/wm29NXGGAn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Del Rio (@coachdelrio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachdelrio\/status\/1534644933457547269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have fully supported all peaceful protests in America. I love, respect, and support all my fellow coaches, players, and staff that I work with and respect their views and opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Del Rio responded to a tweet Monday about Thursday\u2019s Jan. 6 Committee hearings and questioned why there is so much focus on Jan. 6 but not the riots that took place in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould love to understand \u2018the whole story\u2019 about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is???\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Would love to understand \u201cthe whole story \u201c about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is ???<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CommonSense?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CommonSense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Del Rio (@coachdelrio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachdelrio\/status\/1534002744922718208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His tweet prompted backlash from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdgeofSports\/status\/1534176871591596033?s=20&amp;t=IBslJlpUscm9IWP_fGZwQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzmankyle\/status\/1534171682214125575?s=20&amp;t=IBslJlpUscm9IWP_fGZwQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> the riots didn\u2019t actually constitute a \u201csummer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Del Rio <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/08\/washington-commanders-jack-del-rio-defends-black-lives-matter-riot-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended his tweet<\/a> while speaking to reporters Wednesday, calling the Jan. 6 riot a \u201cdust up.\u201d<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/democrats-new-york-times-jan-6-hearings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Straight Up Admit The J6 Hearings Are Political Theater)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just asked a simple question, let\u2019s get right down to it: what did I ask? A simple question. Why are we not looking into those things, if we\u2019re gonna talk about it, why are we not looking into those things?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Commanders Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can look at images on the TV, people\u2019s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dust up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we\u2019re going to make that a major deal.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99mF3uxUTD\">pic.twitter.com\/99mF3uxUTD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1534557094107652097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI see the images on TV, people\u2019s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dust up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we\u2019re going to make that a major deal. I just think it\u2019s kind of two standards, and if we\u2019re gonna apply the same standard and we\u2019re gonna be reasonable with each other, let\u2019s have a discussion, that\u2019s all it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 cost nearly a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/16\/george-floyd-protests-damages-protests-riots-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">billion dollars in damage<\/a>, according to an estimate. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/01\/over-250-businesses-looting-destroyed-fire-minneapolis-st-paul-riot-george-floyd-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">250 buildings<\/a> were looted and damaged in St. Paul and Minneapolis during the riots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio apologized Wednesday night after he referred to the Jan. 6 riots as a \u201cdust up\u201d while defending an earlier tweet.\u201cI made comments earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1509216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}