1. La Detención y el Uso de Bridas (Zip Ties).
El evento central fue la detención de manifestantes en el Russell Senate Office Building. La acción más criticada fue la inmovilización de personas en sillas de ruedas con bridas de plástico, un acto que muchos consideraron innecesario y cruel dada la vulnerabilidad de los detenidos.
- People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the russell senate office building in dc. They showed up to tell congress not to cut their medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it.
- Capitol police zip-tied elderly wheelchair users during protest over medicaid cuts.
- Protesters in wheelchairs cuffed with zip-ties during capitol demonstrations against medicaid cuts.
- Zip tying disabled people in wheelchairs protesting cuts in medicaid should be unamerican but its happening!
2. La Lucha por Medicaid como Cuestión de Supervivencia.
Los activistas, que incluían a personas mayores y discapacitadas, estaban realizando una sentada (sit-in) para oponerse a los recortes presupuestarios que, según ellos, amenazan directamente sus vidas al eliminar el acceso a la atención médica esencial.
- These peoples lives literally depend on medicaid, yet republicans want to take it away from them.
- Without medicaid lives will be destroyed. There are not enough community supports to make up the difference. Healthcare for disabled people will end.
- Disabled people in wheelchairs being arrested for asking congress not to cut their medicaid coverage!
- If seniors in wheelchairs can fight like hell in the halls of the capitol to protect their health care, the rest of us have no excuse to stay quiet.
3. Indignación Pública y Acusaciones de Crueldad.
La respuesta de la policía del Capitolio generó una ola de críticas, con muchos usuarios de redes sociales calificando el incidente como "horrible", "desgraciado" y un signo de fascismo, contrastando el trato dado a los manifestantes pacíficos con el de otros grupos.
- This is disgraceful horrifying watch as disabled activists in wheelchairs are arrested at the us capitol protesting to save medicaid!
- This is what fascism looks like disabled medicaid activists in wheelchairs were just zip-tied and arrested by capitol police.
- Imagine being in the side of history where you arrest grandmas and grandpas in wheelchairs for protesting cuts that will get people killed.
- So the jan 6 folks were just fine but old people in wheelchairs protesting peacefully about their medicaid being cut need to be zip tied and arrested?!