Posted on 07/19/2022 1:22:19 PM PDT by Morgana
Multiple members of Congress including Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Alma Adams, D-N.C., were arrested by Capitol Police Tuesday afternoon outside the Supreme Court building during an abortion rights protest.
Adams' staff confirmed her arrest in a tweet from her official account. Omar's office confirmed her arrest to WCCO.
In a tweet, Omar remained defiant.
"Today I was arrested while participating in a civil disobedience action with my fellow Members of Congress outside the Supreme Court. I will continue to do everything in my power to raise the alarm about the assault on our reproductive rights!" she wrote.
Capitol Police warned demonstrators that they would be taking action.
"It is against the law to block traffic, so officers are going to give our standard three warnings before they start making arrests," Capitol Police tweeted.
Minutes later, they announced that "[s]ome of the demonstrators are refusing to get out of the street, so we are starting to make arrests."
Capitol Police later tweeted that they arrested 34 people in total, including 16 members of Congress.Video from the scene showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., being led away by police with her arms crossed behind her back, though no handcuffs were visible.
Authorities did not specify which members of Congress were arrested.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., released a statement after her arrest, saying "there is no democracy if women don't have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive are."
"I have the privilege of representing a state where reproductive rights are respected and protected – the least I can do is put my body on the line for the 33 million women at risk of losing their rights," she said.
Rep, Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., also took part in the demonstration.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Maloney: “ I have theb WHITE privilege of repre.......”
I like it.
Just
Stop
Murdering
Innocent
Little
Preborn
Babies
Convents are available.
They were just there POSING FOR THE CAMERAS.
They were leading an insurrection and should be duly charged for it. Jim Jordan needs to appoint a select committee to open an investigation on this insurrection.
That’s why they should be tazed first.
Judicial insurrection
will they be denied bail?
will they spend over a year in jail waiting for trial?
will they even be charged?
of course not, they are dems
If they were to crack open Omar’s head and kill her while resisting arrest, please let me be on the jury.
In that case jab mandates on women are incompatible with democracy.
And there certainly are reproductive rights, they just don't extend to violating the rights of others. For example a man does not have an unalienable right to force sex on an unwilling woman as part of his right to try to reproduce. Also women do not have an unalienable right to kill an innocent child because they decided they didn't want it. Its Democracies job to sort out the particulars of government policy regarding these issues. And thankfully now after Roe is overturned it can again do so in regard to abortion.
Were they “protesting” or hooking Johns?
Even in California it's a double murder if you kill a pregnant woman. It is also murder if you beat a woman and she loses her baby.
That’s a badge of honor for those twits, as well as more votes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPUHk2lu0I
Pete Seeger, Communist Party Member and an inspiration to the brave freedom fighters the Dems and Squad, sang this song “I Ain’t Afraid of Your Jail ‘Cause I Want My Freedom” which so much links to the new revolutionaries overthrowing our country.😁😏🤓
Yes
and Yes.
And a 💩
Arrests invalidated as anyone being “asked” to disperse by cops while protesters wear ear buds for loud music means they weren’t listening.
Around $200 million lawsuits for false arrest coming soon.
AOC is working on her tears already.
Not sure how that works. But okay....
Doesn’t DC have leash laws that AOC violated?
Do leash laws apply to donkeys?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.