“We have arrested a total of 35 people” including “17 members of the congress” because after three summons, “some of the demonstrators (refused) to leave the street” located between the Capitol and the Supreme Court, tweeted the police of the police CAPITOLE.
Le Monde with AFP
Seventeen American parliamentarians, including the rising star of the left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were arrested Tuesday July 19 in Washington following a demonstration to defend the right to abortion, announced the police .
Correction: We Made A Total of 35 Arrests for Crowding, Obstructing OR Incomploding (DC Code § 22-1307).
That arre… https://t.co/0xw26qnf– capitolpolice (@u.s. Capitol police)
today, Congresswoman Escobar was arrested in Front of the Supreme Court for Proudly Standing in Defense of Abortion… https://t.co/rghyxofscj
The judicial institution has energized the constitutional law in the United States at the end of June, referring to each State the right to prohibit it and provoking a political tsunami. Democrats and President Joe Biden seek to mobilize their electorate around this theme for the mid-term elections scheduled for November. According to the American media Axios, the 17 arrested parliamentarians, members of the House of Representatives, are all Democrats and essentially women.
It is in 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 which followed the historic decision of the upper Courtyard, June 24, to protest against a historic “back”.