Posted on 06/25/2022 10:30:00 PM PDT by Morgana
Arizona state senators have said the Phoenix Police Department stopped an insurrection with their actions during a protest outside the state Capitol complex on Friday night.
Riot police deployed tear gas as protesters banged on doors and windows during the demonstration. Despite the apparent seriousness of the protest, no arrests were made.
According to a statement from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, there were around 8,000 people present at the protest in the hours after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, stripping abortion rights from millions in the process.
Arizona is one of eight states where abortion clinics stopped performing procedures after the decision was released Friday.
The police accused the protesters of defacing state memorials on the capitol grounds, known as Wesley Bolin Plaza.
It came as millions of people across the country took to the streets to protest the decision with most of the rallies remaining peaceful.
In a press release, the Arizona Senate Republicans said 'violent pro-abortion protesters attempts of an insurrection' were thwarted 'thanks to the swift action from local and state law enforcement.
The Arizona GOP said local law enforcement called for backup and dispersed the crowd before they could breach the capitol building.
The statement refers to the whole situation as 'terrifying' and said that senators and staff had to evacuate to a secure location. The lawmakers were working to complete their 2022 session when the protest occurred.
Despite the crowd being dispersed, senators were still unable to complete their work as some of the tear gas was sucked into the senate chambers' making the air quality unhealthy.
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They should have let them all in. Then shot one of them dead and arrested the rest for insurrection. Televised hearings should have followed.
The Texas statehouse was taken over — again by left-wing protestors — in 2013. Tampons were thrown from the balconies onto the legislators.
I think I recall the tampon thing. Suddenly there is a shortage of tampons maybe that was on purpose?
What, no undercover law enforcement opened the doors and let the protesters in?
KTF / KTA
Should have been bullets.
Real ones.
Maybe they figured, if they let them in, they would have to arrest them, and they didn’t want to arrest anyone.
One article I read claimed they were merely “knocking” on the windows. The video shows that’s a lie.
Can we now hunt down these insurrectionists to the ends of the Earth and put them in a Gulag in Phoenix for months on end without trial?
When the heck did violence become acceptable and those who stop it have to defend themselves from criticism?
Not enough to stop it. AG needs to go after those who were there. Word is the group most responsible for the criminal actions is Women’s March/ They have board of directors and a web site. womensmarch.com
Not enough to stop it. AG needs to go after those who were there. Word is the group most responsible for the criminal actions is Women’s March/ They have board of directors and a web site. womensmarch.com
Since the left got full media supremacy and control of the legal system.
Are these people aware of the new concept called hypocrisy? I know it’s an obscure idea, but aren’t they so much smarter than us hillbillies?
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