Democratic congresswoman arrested during voting rights protest at Capitol

[orangecrush]

Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a Democrat of Ohio, was one of nine people arrested during a voting rights protest at the Capitol this afternoon.

Beatty, who serves as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, shared a photo on Twitter of US Capitol police (USCP) officers putting a zip-tie on her and escorting her out of the building.

“Let the people vote. Fight for justice,” Beatty said in the tweet.

Let the people vote. Fight for justice. pic.twitter.com/JnEUPl9KJW

— Joyce Beatty (@RepBeatty) July 15, 2021

The congresswoman had been participating in a protest calling on the Senate to pass the For the People Act, Democrats’ sweeping election reform bill.

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The For the People Act passed the House in March, but it is being held up in the Senate because of a Republican filibuster.

Demands to amend the filibuster to pass the For the People Act, as well as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, have intensified as Republicans have enacted voting restrictions across the country.


https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/15/joyce-beatty-democrat-arrested-congress-voting-rights-protest


If this doesn't make your blood boil, you are technically dead.

[DURHAM D]

1. Guess those nine women were a real threat so that had to be arrested.

Tell me again why none of those 800 treasonous protesters on January 8 were arrested?

Have the laws changed?

[orangecrush]

2. They sure

Are getting arrested now

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Was wondering that while it went down

as I am sure everyone here at DU was thinking the same.

[orangecrush]

4. Civil disobedience

Doesn't give a fuck about their rules.

They don't allow us to vote, we SHUT THE FUCKING COUNTRY DOWN.

[orangecrush]

7. Here's the answer

He had already been arrested 24 times in the nonviolent movement for equal justice. As chairman of SNCC, Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders who were organizing the March on Washington that summer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › J...
John Lewis - Wikipedia

[markpkessinger]

10. Capitol Police should be called to answer for this!

Especially when hundreds of Trump supporters were permitted to violently overrun the capitol building, with almost no arrests being made until long afterwards!

[bottomofthehill]

11. Two different groups two different goals

The insurrectionists on 1/6 came to stop the process of counting electoral college votes by way of violence and they did. Their actions interrupted the count. There were thousands of people who were not afraid to use violence to reach a short term goal, stop the count

The voting rights activists today came with the intent to get arrested and are playing a much longer game to do the right thing and bring attention to the injustice that is going on.

They are two totally different circumstances.

[markpkessinger]

12. The two groups may have had different motivations . . .

. . . But that really isn't an issue for the Capitol Police to determine.