AIDS Activists Arrested After Shutting Down Capitol Rotunda

[kpete]

Source: Roll Call


AIDS Activists Arrested After Shutting Down Capitol Rotunda
By Emily Yehle
Roll Call Staff
July 9, 2009, 10:41 a.m.


A group of 26 AIDS activists chained themselves to each other in the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday morning, startling visitors, shutting down the landmark area and prompting their arrest by Capitol Police.

The group, which was protesting President Barack Obama’s failure to get rid of a ban on funding needle exchange programs, arrived at the Rotunda around 10 a.m.

By 10:45, police had arrested 11 men and 15 women. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said they would all be charged with unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct, loud and boisterous.

Schneider said the protesters bound themselves together with plastic chains. They then became “really noisy,” she added, and officers decided that they should be arrested. Those arrested are being transported to a processing facility at 67 K St. SW.

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[katandmoon]

1. K&R. One more FAIL by Obama to add to the pile.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Opposing needle exchange is simply cruel and stupid

there is no excuse for it at all.

[Metta]

3. yes, causing and inheriting needless suffering.

doesn't make sense.

[GodlessBiker]

4. Good job, protesters! Keep up the pressure.

[Wednesdays]

5. K&R

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