Black Clergy Arrested After Protesting Health Care bill as Immoral to Cut Medicaid
Monday, July 17, 2017 at 05:44PM From [HERE] Eleven interfaith protestors, including the Rev. William Barber II, were arrested outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office while protesting Medicaid cuts in the GOP’s revised healthcare bill.
About 50 protestors gathered Thursday (July 13) for the Capitol Hill rally, before marching to a Senate office building steps from the Capitol.
Some protestors, some wore red armbands to symbolize a “willingness to engage in civil disobedience,” said Barber, a North Carolina pastor at the forefront of state and national protests focused on poverty and civil rights.
The group was warned three times to stop protesting. Capitol Police then closed off the hallway and arrested any remaining protestors about 20 minutes later.
Barber has repeatedly been arrested for civil disobedience in North Carolina and elsewhere.
Protestors said they want McConnell to know it’s immoral to cut Medicaid because it helps many children, seniors, and disabled persons.
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