Students arrested protesting gun violence outside Paul Ryan's office

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Source: The Hill


By Josh Delk - 05/19/18 09:07 AM EDT


Students arrested protesting gun violence outside Paul Ryan’s office

Police arrested four Maryland students for protesting gun violence outside Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) office on Friday, hours after 10 students were shot and killed in a Texas high school.

A U.S. Capitol Police spokesman confirmed to HuffPost that the students were arrested outside Ryan's office building in Washington on charges of “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding."

The arrests came after eight students from Montgomery County Students for Gun Control staged a sit-in to demand action on gun control, a reaction to gun violence at another school after a series of school shootings this year.
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Nate Tinbite, who identifies himself as a member of the group Montgomery County Students For Gun Control, posted a video of the event on Twitter, showing students laying down on the floor in the hallway of a congressional office building.

And David Hogg, a teenage gun control activist and survivor of February's school shooting in Parkland, Fla., tweeted his support for the students and blamed the arrest on Ryan.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/388437-students-arrested-protesting-gun-violence-outside-paul-ryans-office

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[iluvtennis]

1. Sickening. America is supposed to be the land of the free, yet it always arrests ppl exercising

theirr 1st Amendment right.

[Lochloosa]

2. Dammit, they were incommoding. Throw the book at them.

incommode
[in-kuh-mohd]
verb (used with object), in·com·mod·ed, in·com·mod·ing.
to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble.

to impede; hinder.

[iluvtennis]

4. Exactly. BTW, I had to look up 'incommoding'...thanks for helping me extend my vocabulary.

[Lochloosa]

6. So did I. And it's a crime.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. Arresting children who are standing up for victims of school shootings.

Nice political party you got there.

[modrepub]

5. Girl Walks Around College Campus with AR-15 Rifle and Isn't Bothered

Unarmed kids show up at Speakers office and get arrested. This is the Bizarro World.

[keithbvadu2]

7. NRA supporters would rather have dead children than any gun control.

NRA supporters would rather have dead children than any gun control.

To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.

[Midnight Writer]

8. The students must not have offered Ryan enough cash. That's on them. MoneySpeech.

[erronis]

9. Ryan has stashed his ill-gotten bribes and will retire to write paeans to other failures.

Unless it can be proven that he has accepted illicit payments from entities - inside/outside the US and not declared them. And if the new governments have the courage to give these critters the punishments that they deserve.

[Initech]

10. Right to own guns more important than free speech. Got it!

[ManiacJoe]

11. There are right ways and wrong ways to protest.

students laying down on the floor in the hallway of a congressional office building.

That will get you arrested every time.