Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was arrested in Washington with other lawmakers during a protest against abortion rights
Police said 17 US parliamentarians, including rising left-wing star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were arrested Tuesday, July 19 in Washington, following a demonstration in defense of abortion rights.
Correction: We made a total of 35 arrests for overcrowding, obstruction, or occupancy (DC Code § 22–1307). This is… https://t.co/0xW26qt2NF
Elected Democrat Ilhan Omar wrote on the social network that she was arrested during a “Civil disobedience”. “I will do everything in my power to sound the alarm about the abuse of our reproductive rights”He added the left-wing member of the Democratic Party such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A video posted on the latter’s Twitter account, called “AOC,” shows a police officer escorting her, but not handcuffed, from the street across from the Supreme Court building.
Today, Congresswoman Escobar was arrested in front of the Supreme Court for standing up proudly in defense of abortion… https://t.co/rghyxOfsCJ
Democrats are trying to mobilize their voters
The judiciary had dynamited at the end of June the constitutional right to voluntary termination of pregnancy in the United States, and returned to every state the right to ban it and cause a political tsunami. Democrats and President Joe Biden are seeking to rally their voters on the subject in light of the midterm elections scheduled for November. According to the American media Axios, the seventeen deputies arrested, members of the House of Representatives, are all Democrats and most of them are women.
It was on this same street, in the heart of the Federal Capital and between the Capitol Building and the Supreme Court, that thousands of people gathered in the hours and days following the landmark decision of the Supreme Court, on June 24, to protest it. against a ” flash back “ Historical.
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