WaPo Live feed from protest at McConnell's office Arresting people in wheel chairs!

[mucifer]

https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/posts/10155261006427293

These are brave people fighting for their lives.

These kind of protests are very effective. The police have a hard time removing people in heavy electric wheel chairs and it really looks horrible for repubs if the press actually covers it.

[Hoyt]

1. God Bless them. We need more of this.

[kacekwl]

2. That pile of zip tie handcuffs

Should be used on McConnell and the aholes in the Senete supporting this shit.

[Orrex]

3. I'm surprised that McConnell isn't simply pushing them down the steps

[mucifer]

5. honestly they are carrying them out by all fours without their wheel chairs. I worry about

the protesters health and safety. It's really scary. I hope they have good support from advocates

[MineralMan]

4. I saw a cop picking up some nylon handcuff strips.

So, they're going to handcuff old people in wheelchairs and haul them off under arrest? Really?

This should get national news coverage this evening, and probably will.

[Beartracks]

6. Don't worry. I'm sure Republibots will denounce them...

... with no evidence, mind you, as "paid protesters" faking their own disabilities -- because that's what Republicans themselves would do.

Of course, silly agitators like James O'Keefe would actually sit in a wheelchair with white powder in his hair and lines painted on his face, wrapped in a blanket, shivering, looking for all the world like a young guy in stage makeup acting stereotypically "old" in a junior high play, and Republican voters would still believe it.

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