Carrying specifically made inexperienced bandanas with “Will not Again Down,” they marched from the Capitol to the Courtroom, which has been fenced off for weeks, since shortly after the leak of the draft resolution overturning Roe v. Wade.
Inside two minutes of their arriving, police started ordering them to “stop and desist.” As an alternative, they sat on the road, and had been one after the other led off by officers as they chanted, “The individuals, united, won’t ever be divided.”
The US Capitol Police tweeted: “Demonstrators are beginning to block First Avenue, NE. It’s towards the legislation to dam site visitors, so officers are going to present our commonplace three warnings earlier than they begin making arrests.”
Capitol Police later mentioned that they had arrested 34 individuals complete, together with 16 members of Congress.
Amongst these arrested:
- Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark of Massachusetts
- Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
- Barbara Lee of California
- Jackie Speier of California
- Sara Jacobs of California
- Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
- Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey
- Andy Levin of Michigan
- Rashida Tlaib of Michigan
- Jan Schakowsky of Illinois
- Madeline Dean of Pennsylvania
- Cori Bush of Missouri
- Carolyn Maloney of New York
- Nydia Velazquez of New York
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
- Alma Adams of North Carolina