Not okay to drag people out of wheelchairs when they're protesting

[bigtree]

ACLU National? @ACLU 6h6 hours ago

We can't believe this needs to be said, but it's not okay to drag people out of wheelchairs when they're protesting legislation.

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[furtheradu]

1. ..

My Dear God.
"& they dropped one".

SOBGOP.
Karma coming for YOU.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's not OK to drag people out of wheelchairs at all.

[leftstreet]

3. DURec

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[mopinko]

5. wonder what the toll is.

yeah, real stupid guys. they could be in those chairs for a lot of reasons. a lot.

[Maraya1969]

6. Next time maybe they can secure themselves to their wheelchairs with some sort

of metal seat belt type things, that need keys to open. Make it so the police have to pick up their wheelchairs also. If these people have to be stuck in the wheel chairs then make the fucking authorities stuck with them too.

(I may be talking out of my ass here)

[politicat]

11. And U-lock the wheels together.

There have been wheelchair protests before (several during the HIV/AIDS protests). The strategies exist. They're just extreme strategies that are usually deployed only after a lengthy escalation (and not every wheel person can use the lock-in, lock-down strategies. Circulation impairment with spinal injuries is risky as hell.). This went from 1 to 11 far faster.

[irisblue]

7. Kicking for the bleeding obvious point.

[ecstatic]

8. Did any of our senators or representatives weigh in on this horrific

display? Have the protesters been released from jail????

[Samantha]

9. Beyond shameful

I caught that segment on MSNBC and could not believe what I was seeing. This is NOT my Country; where did it go? How do we get it back?

Sam

[Cha]

10. They don't have the common sense of a slug