Democratic Rep. Beatty arrested while calling for Senate action on voting rights

Rep. Joyce Beatty is taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police officers in the Hart Senate Office Building after a demonstration supporting voting rights Thursday.

Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was part of a small group urging the Senate to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, federal legislation that would curtail restrictions being set on voting and gerrymandering at the state level. Speaking on the Hill before her march into the Hart Senate Office Building, Beatty compared this moment to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century, saying, “We might as well have the dogs and the hoses because we don’t have the Voting Rights Act and that’s why we need to march in these streets, we need to march as those who were followers of Martin Luther King and John Lewis.”“That’s what today is about: It’s about fighting for everyone,” Beatty said. “It’s about fighting for justice.

Rep. Joyce Beatty, center, leads a group of activists through the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday. that said "in solidarity with Black women and allies across the country in defense of our constitutional right to vote. We have come too far and fought too hard to see everything systematically dismantled and restricted by those who to silence us. Be assured that this is just the beginning.

As of June 21, 17 states had enacted 28 new laws this year that restrict access to the vote, according to

As a constituent of hers… you can keep her! She’s useless.

Question now is will prosecutors correctly charged Beatty the same way they are against those on January 6th. Or will she get a free pass because of the side of the politics she's on

Won't fight for any REAL issues!

Enjoy the dog and pony show. They aren't fighting for anything forreal! Not fighting for reparations or fighting to punish the race-soldiers aka the police ,who execute unarmed black people. Just 'fighting(putting on a show).'

A PROTEST? Inside the CAPITOL? You'd think that would be page 1.

Another black victim. It never ends.

Photo op much

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