Thursday afternoon a member of Congress was arrested for protesting on Capitol Hill. Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty was led away in zip-tie handcuffs after protesting for the Senate to pass Democrat-led voting bills and end the filibuster.
According to reports Beatty was arrested in the Senate Hart building.
We will not be turned around. We will keep walking. We will fight for freedom. We will fight for our right to vote! pic.twitter.com/uyJHXEy8Y0
— Joyce Beatty (@RepBeatty) July 15, 2021
According to The Daily Wire:
“The group of around 20 people spent about 20 minutes in the building before Capitol Police delivered several warnings and restrained the protesters with zip ties. The police detained Beatty first, then led her and other protesters outside to waiting Capitol Police vans. The remaining protesters walked out of Hart without being arrested,” Politico reported.
“Today, I stood in solidarity with Black women across the country in defense of our constitutional right to vote,” Beatty said in a statement. “We have come too far and fought too hard to see everything systematically dismantled and restricted by those who wish to silence our voice.”
Politico further noted, “The buildings that make up the Capitol complex are still closed to most visitors, but members and staff can escort guests inside. The group had initially rallied near the Capitol at a church building as part of what participants billed as a ‘Day of Action on Voting Rights’ with Black women leaders, allies and advocates urging the Senate to pass two key pieces of legislation — a sprawling Democratic election reform bill and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.”
As noted by The Hill, “It is believed that the Democrats’ two voting rights bills — the For the People Act and the Johnson Lewis Voting Rights Advancement — would stem the flow of the new voting restrictions, but as it stands, neither have a clear path to President Biden’s desk.”
Democrats have been going to father lengths and often resorting to theatrics to get attention in hopes of pushing their agenda forward. A group of more than 50 Texas Democrats fled the state to avoid providing the needed quorum in the state legislature to vote on a new election overhaul bill. Ultimately the bill passed in the Senate.
