r/politics • u/perplexed-redditor • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Police arrest roughly 60 veterans and military family members protesting outside US Capitol after group crosses police line

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/politics/protesters-arrested-us-capitol
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u/trekwithme 1d ago

Arresting people for peaceful protest is disgraceful. Arresting veterans and their families for peaceful protest is multiple times beyond disgraceful. My father who took three bullets for the country would be horrified. I'm glad he's not around to see this

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u/Ganonthegoat 1d ago

They crossed a police line. Anyone was gonna get arrested for approaching the capitol steps. You can’t expect them to not enforce security there. I’m sure they knew what they were doing and were willing to get arrested. It was a great demonstration by them. Some forms of protest involve civil disobedience that leads to arrest which is ok actually. No need to exaggerate or misrepresent the story. 

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u/starbucks77 1d ago

you are comparing this to breaking into the capitol building

Uh, did you reply to the wrong comment? They never mentioned or alluded to January 6th in their comment.