Posted on 06/14/2025 5:48:02 PM PDT by Morgana
Capitol Police said about 60 demonstrators were arrested on Friday during a veterans’ protest on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, after the group breached a law enforcement line of bike racks.
The arrests were made outside the U.S. Capitol building near the steps of the rotunda, Fox News reported on Saturday. The outlet said a group of veterans and military family members planned a sit-in to show their disagreement with President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, California, where violent protests erupted recently over illegal immigration sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The group was also protesting the planned military parade that will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. The event is scheduled for Saturday in D.C., which is also Trump’s birthday, according to Breitbart News.
Newsmax shared video footage on Saturday of the protesters running towards the Capitol Rotunda steps:
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Please give them the Jan 6 treatment.
60? That’s not near enough.
It was an insurrection. Most serious challenge to our government since the civil war....
That’s all that showed up.
It's easy to claim to be a veteran when you're not. That is what stolen valor is all about .
Most vets don’t carry our DD214 around it has identity theft level information on it. We carry our VA issued red,white, and blue cards and most states not only issue licence plates but put veteran with last service branch or DV veteran and your last service branch if you have multiple like many vets do. Especially Mustangs who go green to gold.
Texas for example puts veteran Marines , veteran Army...ect right on your driver’s license and LTC pistol permits too.
Pronto.
Just ask Tampon Timmy.
If it makes it to trial, those 60 (alleged veterans) might not want this Veteran, or the Vets I know on their jury.
16 million Veterans, double that or more including family. And 60 showed up. Yawn, only the Main Stream Marxist Media could find a story here.
Of course not, it is a figurative statement alluding to being able to provide valid proof of service somehow.
My driver's license says "Veteran" and I did have to provide a DD 214 to prove it to them. Same for my VA ID card.
Guys who played the piccolo in the Coast Guard band are veterans too.
My Oregon drivers license says the same, and I also provided a DD 214. You can say a lot about Oregon, and I do too, but they still do take care of veterans.
Not my poor brother, tho. He has medical issues, for which he has full VA disability. With all of his disability payments, tho, his income was just slightly too much to get any help from anybody when he was defrauded by a "friend", and lost his house and car.
Beat me to it. Leftist filth actually deserve far worse treatment.
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