This is our country now

[Blue_Adept]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattmfm/status/877932005593300993/video/1

I still can't process why they were removing her from the wheelchair.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. What is she saying? Dont touch what?

[Blue_Adept]

2. Medicaid

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Oh, makes sense.

It is good she was treated gently by those cops.

I worry about our protesters in areas where there are not a hundred cameras on the cops.

[Leith]

4. Because They Wanted It to Look Like They Were Removing an Unruly Protestor

and NOT forcibly removing a helpless and harmless person in a wheelchair.

[snooper2]

5. For her own safety I guess?

[Blue_Adept]

8. I can't imagine removing someone from the only way they can be mobile as being for their safety

[snooper2]

9. Is she actually wheelchair bound or was it a prop?

[MrScorpio]

6. If she were near a cliff, I'm sure that Zombie Eyes and Yertle would push her off the edge nt

[Solly Mack]

7. That's been America for a while. People are just more open about it.

It's a sad state of affairs and continues to be so.

Authority doesn't shoot unarmed people in the street and not hold the capacity to remove a woman from her wheelchair in an effort to pretend she's a threat. Point being, authority in America has always been a placeholder for those who look for reasons to be cruel to others. Not all - but far too many - and the guilty includes those who act and those who remain silent.

A woman simply protesting for the right to live against corrupt members of Congress who would strip her of her very life - and people in uniform all too willing to aid in the effort.

Obama offered a brief reprieve from the very worst - but it has always been there.

The oppressed and marginalized of America have always known this.

[ismnotwasm]

10. K&R