🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Moments ago at the Russel Senate Office building Medicaid activists in wheelchairs were arrested by Capitol police for staging a sit in. Their banner was snatched and their wrists tied with zip ties.
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It would probably be very helpful for someone to start collection videos of officers violating people's civil rights during this time. Also, if they could work on identifying the officers in the videos and just keep some sort of list so that they can be properly tried and penalized when this is over
Jfc, if there’s any justice in this world, anyone who zip tied someone to a wheelchair like this will spend the rest of their lives with an unbearable sense of shame.
Man, all of us on this thread are horrified. We can only hope that the media picks it up and broadcast the absolute shit out of this. I can't wait to see interviews with some of the seniors. They are usually sassy as hell I'm so sick of this crap. Vote folks, vote. ❤️🌻
My belief is that, do not pay attention to the American administration's constant talk of democracy, when the conditions are right you can see that they turn into the most anti-democratic administration in the world.
how do people see this and think "these are the good guys"? imagine zip tying people in wheelchairs for peacefully protesting (or for any reason really) and being able to sleep at night.
My phone call script: How pathetic! of Rick Scott and whatever her first name is Moody, my FL senators, for supporting the Big Billionaire Bill that cuts funds for seniors...causing scooter-bound seniors to revolt against your bill and get arrested. #Florida
Is zip tying people in wheelchairs who want healthcare making us great again? Is that what makes us Iran's moral superior & authority & why they need us to bomb them to free them?
Trump is destroying America. He's turning it into a FACIST DICTATORSHIP HOLY F@CK PEOPLE WAKE THE F@CK UP. freedom of assembly and freedom of speech is going down the shitter
If there are any responsible journalists left, they need to ask every single congressman/senator if they support the capital police zip-tying people in a wheel chair!!! Get their responses on record!!
Vile and dehumanizing in every way. These elderly disabled folks are trying to preserve their access to lifesaving medical care that the GOO is slashing with no thought & no compassion whatsoever. They are fighting for their lives by peacefully protesting at our congress. Outrageous.
This should not come as a shock to anyone. The Republican Party has been a death cult for decades. The only people they care about are their rich donors. If you're too old or sick to work, you're of no use to them. And they dare call themselves Christians.
Zip tied their wrists?? 🤬🤬They are in wheelchairs !! They aren’t going to trash the place or hurt people like the Jan 6 rioters who got pardoned! This beyond wrong!!
As disgusting as it is, every time optics like this happen, it’s a win. For someone, somewhere, seeing this is the final straw. Every small win makes a difference.
They could have just led them out. Arrest them as if their criminals? The criminals are the arresting authorities - they should be charged with assault for using zip ties. What were they going to do, flip the snowflake offices the bird?
Do Capitol police not have eyes? Why use zip ties on these protesters? It’s not like they’re going to suddenly get out of their wheelchairs and attack those officers. 🤦🏻♀️
The brave, Constitutionally correct, Capitol police who warded off Jan 6 insurrectionists have been turned into a force that zip-ties people in wheel chairs.
U.S. Capitol Police arrest protesting members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The protesters chanted “no cuts to Medicaid” while being arrested. So we are going to zip-tie disabled Americans in Wheelchairs now? WTF!
I am beyond speechless! Medicaid will be cut because neither party actually gives a darn about the sick, elderly or disabled. Anyone who thinks IDEA or the Rehabilitation Act won’t be repealed is in for a rude awakening.
Zip-ties?? MAGA-GOP are too pathetic! Can they go any lower? Reminds me of the 1988, Gallaudet University student-led protests that today is called Deaf President Now, or simply DPN. They cut their mics so the students used sign language to get the message out!! https://gallaudet.edu/museum/history/the-deaf-president-now-dpn-protest/
Republican Mitch McConnell is an utter disgrace! He is a piece of shit! Mitch McConnell is a multi-millionaire who wants to destroy Medicaid and SNAP for poor and working class people. Detestable and vile! He should go straight to hell and rot and burn for eternity! Fuck you Mitch McConnell! 🖕
Beware! The cruel, vile and corrupt Republicans in Congress voted to decimate and destroy Medicaid, the ACA, social programs and the economic safety net in order to give massive tax cuts to the selfish wealthy and greedy corporations. Shameful and heinous! They must be stopped! Vote them all out!
Based on history, this is how the US does things and it’s utterly abhorrent. The US was never the greatest country and never will be unless shit like this is stopped.
This is embarrassing to see in our country that's already a complete embarrassment. They all should have turned off their wheelchairs and refused to move. Have all the officers manually push all of those folks.
Bravo to these folks. Getting out and protesting and being zip tied what a great visual to show the harm being done. I am sure they were thrilled to be zip tied and to be national news. Everyone that can protest should make a point to get out. So proud of them.
I also feel the need to add that using zip ties instead of handcuffs feels extra sickening for a reason I can’t quite put my finger on. It makes it feel even more like a kidnapping, more violating, more dehumanizing. Someone look at the faces of those cops and identify them for the world.
That’s disgusting. Cops zip tying the wrists of elderly wheelchair users for staging a peaceful protest is abhorrent, appalling, repugnant, and all the other words that mean disgusting and disgraceful. Remember, cops are not there to help us. Fuck them.
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It really shows!!!
2 wars
Plus racism
Social programs less support ect ect
Let’s Grease the steps of
The Nursing Home vibes
Time to get angry and name names.
The anxiety that is beating in my chest & banging in my head is on 1000 X 1000.
If they’ll do this to old, wheelchair bound seniors, as a POC, I literally fear 4 every family member I have. I know they look at us different.
JESUS!
But when you have no morals, and you're full of HATE, cruelty becomes a pleasure.
is the perfect metaphor for this
beyond cruel administration
May these protesters stay strong, fierce, focused. They are on the right side of history.
Nothing says freedom like zip tying disabled people
FFS what will these asshats do next?
They could have just led them out. Arrest them as if their criminals? The criminals are the arresting authorities - they should be charged with assault for using zip ties. What were they going to do, flip the snowflake offices the bird?
Disgusting.
@puggymama21.bsky.social
My God wtf 😳
How fucking inhumane does it have to get?
It is sad & maddening that the disabled have to be ziptied by law enforcement.
Why are they zip tying people in WHEELCHAIRS!!
Do any of them see this picture compared to J6.
The repuklikkkans are using law enforcement as tools for their lawlessness.
Great look
Very compassionate
America is sick to bone of your cruelty and protection of the rich