Protesters in wheelchairs cuffed with zip-ties during Capitol demonstrations against Medicaid cuts

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 25 June 2025 17:38 EDT


A group of protesters, some in wheelchairs, were arrested and zip-tied on Capitol Hill and dragged out by police officers as they demonstrated against proposed cuts to Medicaid in Republicans' massive spending package.

Proposed cuts could mean that some 10 million low-income Americans would lose coverage over the course of the next 10 years. The legislation would also put in place additional work requirements for those using the program.

At least 33 people were arrested for “illegally demonstrating” inside the Russell Senate Rotunda, a Capitol Police spokesperson told The Independent on Wednesday.

The group was arrested for “crowding, obstructing, and incommoding,” police said. Another protester was arrested for allegedly crossing a police line, police told The Independent.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/protesters-wheelchairs-cuffed-medicaid-capitol-b2777036.html

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Seniors ZIP-TIED in Capitol Medicaid Protests, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE - Really American

BREAKING NEWS: Medicaid activists, protesters, and seniors in wheelchairs are currently being zip-tied and arrested at the Capitol Building for protesting Trump and Republicans' Medicaid cuts. The activists were staging a sit-in at the Russell Senate office building to demonstrate against proposed spending cuts to social safety net programs.

This activism highlights the ongoing fight for disability rights that MAGA Republicans are trying to cut in Donald Trump's Big "Beautiful" (bullsh*t) Bill along with Social Security and Medicare. Yet another disgusting and reprehensible infringement on First Amendment rights and freedoms from the Authoritarian Trump Regime. - 06/25/2025.

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6. People in wheelchairs zip-tied and escorted out of Capitol Hill office building during Medicaid cuts protest

omg! Treating people like shi** is so wrong. And yet it continues on and on.




People in wheelchairs zip-tied and escorted out of Capitol Hill office building during Medicaid cuts protest
Scripps News footage shows a crowd of people, some of them in wheelchairs, being zip-tied and escorted out of the Russell Senate Rotunda.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/health-care/people-in-wheelchairs-zip-tied-and-escorted-out-of-us-capitol-during-medicaid-cuts-protest



U.S. Capitol Police detained a group of peaceful protestors on Wednesday, including several people in wheelchairs, during a protest over proposed cuts to Medicaid spending on Capitol Hill. (Scripps News)
Protesters in wheelchairs zip-tied and escorted out of Capitol
Medicaid protests Capitol Hill
By: Scripps News Group , Nathaniel Reed, Eric Koraganie
Posted 1:39 PM, Jun 25, 2025
and last updated 5:43 PM, Jun 25, 2025

U.S. Capitol Police detained a group of peaceful protesters on Wednesday, including several people in wheelchairs, during a protest over proposed cuts to Medicaid spending.

Scripps News footage shows a crowd of people, some of them in wheelchairs, being zip-tied and escorted out of the Russell Senate Rotunda. The room is part of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill.

Protesters shouted slogans, among them "No cuts to Medicaid."

During the protests, demonstrators held banners reading “Senate Republicans Don't Kill Us, Save Medicaid,” and “60 Million Off Medicaid.” Video showed Capitol Police confiscating at least two of the banners, one of which was briefly unfurled in a staircase in the building......................

[RandiFan1290]

2. Same thug pigs that invited Jan 6 terrorists into the Capitol with high 5s

and helped them down the stairs after their insurrection.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. Unreal. The cruelty is directed at wheelchair bound seniors.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. CRUELTY is the point here...

Shouldn't it be obvious that those Seniors wheelchair bound are UNABLE to work or even volunteer 20 hours per week due to their need to be in a wheelchair in the first place?

NO mercy or compassion for the disabled. WTF is wrong with Republicans? Were it their family members, they would be exempt from the CRUEL cuts they are proposing. Very Christ-like of them to behave in this manner.

[atreides1]

5. Of course

It's really telling that the Capitol police are able to arrest people in wheelchairs...because we've already seen how well they do in a more "active" situation!!!

But, I understand that they were "following orders"!!!

[NotHardly]

7. Shame, shame, shame

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. This is very upsetting

[Hekate]

9. Oooooh, a wild quadriplegic who uses a computer to communicate is SUCH a threat to the Republic!

How proud that cop must be of doing his job!

May God have mercy on our souls as a nation — though I no longer know how any more.

[twodogsbarking]

10. What no National Guard or Marine troops?

NOT

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Can you imagine

telling all your friends and relatives that you were criminally arrested by Police for ...."INCOMMODING"..............

[Chi67]

12. Wow

Not a good look for our current fascist regime. I have feeling they are gonna experience FAFO.

[CTyankee]

13. "the right of the people peaceably to assemble"

This seems pretty "peaceably to assemble" to me.