At least 16 members of Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were arrested outside the Supreme Court during an abortion rights protest.
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A Tuesday abortion rights demonstration at the Supreme Court resulted in the arrest of 35 people, including 17 members of Congress, according to a statement released by the U.S. Capitol Police. The protest is the latest of several staged around the nation’s Capitol since June, when Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade, the decades-old ruling establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
Capitol Police arrested demonstrators for blocking traffic on First Street, NE in Washington after giving “our standard three warnings,” according to the statement. The Supreme Court is located on First Street.
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Cringiest and most despicable politician ever 😂
She was not handcuffed !
AOC identified as handcuffed. 😂
Either AOC faked her arrest or do democrats get special treatment and don't have to wear handcuffs when the are arrested? Which is it?
AOC and Omar are looking very ridiculous trying to be like typical "barbudos" of pro-Castro revolutionary Cuba, shouting out of a crowd the same slogans. Why don't you want then to get out to Cuba?. Maybe, you are scared to lose all privileges having from our capitalist country the values of which you are actively fighting against. De Santis and great persons like him having a clear knowledge about this socialist pandemic danger dedicate their life just to clean up our freedom from these revolutionary virus carriers disturbing a normal people life. Moreover, these Cuba-style socialists like AOC/Omar crawled into the government to propagate here the revolutionary poison of Fidel Castro. They have a fun playing with virtual handcuffs, not even having an idea how tough they would experience a real handcuffs locked on their hands at a lovely socialist regime they are dreaming about. How seriously they would be whining then from behind the KGB cage.
She's like Rosa parks…
Americans ☕
So pretending to be arrested is actually being arrested now…interesting.
USA today your really cutting off the footage where the "handcuffed". AOC raised her hand and accidentally revealed she didn't have any handcuffs on.
Is this the one where they pretended to be hand cuffed ?.
Why was AOC pretending to be handcuffed?
Very disingenuous.
Is this seriously being looked at as her being arrested? Sorta like that right wing guy a few weeks ago was “sexually harassing” her on Capitol Hill
I'm proud of AOC she's brave cause this the land of the brave
MSM propaganda reaching a new level of rediculouseness.
She is a real hypocrite, ungrateful spoilt type.
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Smollet nominated for Oscars yet?
Showboat clown. Same person that made a campaign stop at a border detention facility in 2019 to stage some photos. As usual she made the whole thing about herself. If this is who the people of NY's 14th congressional district want as their representative then that is on them, best of luck. Her show derails every time she steps outside the Bronx. In the real world, where intelligence and experience are considered positive attributes, she is seriously handicapped.
USA Today is bold for leaving the comment section on.
AOC and her squad weren't arrested. They pretended to be arrested. Hell, Ilhan Omar was walking by herself with her hands behind her back, and didn't even have any cops escorting her away! After they were "arrested," there was footage of them dancing and acting like giddy schoolgirls! What an embarrassment they are to Congress!
To use the United States to win Taiwan and use the United States to control China, the United States has only one dead end, and the United States will not return.
She should actually be thrown in prison rather then pretending to be