.MittRomney joined in on the BlackLivesMatter protests
Wearing a mask and seemingly unrecognized by many of his fellow marchers., Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate and an increasingly vocal critic of President Donald Trump, joined more than 1,000 protestors in a Washington, D.C., on Sunday,, Romney said he had joined the march, made up largely of evangelicals, because he said he wanted to find “a way to end violence and brutality, and to make sure that people understand that black lives matter.” Other U.S.
An aide to Romney told CNN that the senator's participation was "spontaneous," adding that the senator had come across a group of 1,000 or so evangelicals from the D.C. area near the Capitol and decided to join their march for an hour and a half. On Saturday, perhaps foreshadowing what was to come the next day, Romney had tweeted a photo of his father, Michigan Gov. George Romney, participating in a Civil Rights protest in the 1960s, while a placard behind him read, "The Freedoms We Lose May Be Your Own" and "A House Knows No Prejudice.": "This is my father, George Romney, participating in a Civil Rights march in the Detroit suburbs during the late 1960s—'Force alone will not eliminate riots.
Although Romney's tweet from Sunday's march was met by derision and some personal attacks by Trump supporters, others on social media were quick to praise the Utah senator. "I give @MittRomney a lot of credit and respect for standing up when practically no one else in his party has,"The MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell, tweeting out a video of Romney marching,
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