A member of Congress just suggested he would execute Black activists in cold blood.

On Tuesday, Clay Higgins — a Trump loyalist who represents Louisiana’s 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives — posted a photo on Facebook of armed Black demonstrators three states away in Kentucky protesting the police killing of Breonna Taylor.

In his Facebook post, Higgins threatened any Black protesters carrying guns in Louisiana (an open carry state, by the way):

“I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand. … [Y]ou won’t walk away.”

• Higgins, who has worked as a police officer himself, makes a show of wearing a gun when he’s out and about in Louisiana.

• Apparently, his support of the 2nd Amendment and his adherence to laws against threatening to kill people do not extend to African Americans.

• His post was so blatantly racist and violent that Facebook deleted it.

• So Higgins followed up with another Facebook post saying “I’ll advise when it’s time [to] gear up, mount up, and roll out.”

This all follows Donald Trump — the President of the United States — praising the teenage vigilante charged with murdering two protesters last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Let’s be clear:

Trump, Higgins, and others in the Republican Party are fomenting violence by white people against people of color and dangerously nudging the country toward a race war.

Individuals have a right to say what they want, but elected officials should be held to account.

Clay Higgins should — at the very least — be censured by his colleagues in Congress for his racist and inflammatory comments.

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