Seventeen US parliamentarians, including rising star of the left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were arrested on Tuesday July 19 in Washington following a demonstration to defend the right to abortion, police said.
Correction: We made a total of 35 arrests for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding (DC Code § 22–1307).
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The elected Democrat Ilhan Omar wrote on the social network to have been arrested during a “action of civil disobedience”. “I will do everything I can to sound the alarm about the assault on our reproductive rights”, added the one who is a member of the left wing of the Democratic Party, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A video posted to the latter’s Twitter account, dubbed “AOC”, shows her being escorted, but not handcuffed, by a police officer off the street facing the Supreme Court building.
Today, Congresswoman Escobar was arrested in front of the Supreme Court for proudly standing in defense of abortion… https://t.co/rghyxOfsCJ
Democrats seek to mobilize their electorate
The judicial institution dynamited at the end of June the constitutional right to voluntary termination of pregnancy in the United States, returning to each State the right to prohibit it and causing a political tsunami. Democrats and President Joe Biden are seeking to mobilize their electorate around this theme in view of the midterm elections scheduled for November. According to the American media Axios, the 17 arrested parliamentarians, members of the House of Representatives, are all Democrats and mainly women.
It was on this same street, in the heart of the federal capital and located between the Capitol and the Supreme Court, that thousands of people had gathered in the hours and days following the historic decision of the High Court, the June 24, in protest against a “rewind” historical.