74 protesters charged at Capitol in protest of Kavanaugh
Source: The Hill
Capitol Police charged 74 people on Wednesday in connection with a protest in the Senate office building against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
A spokeswoman for Capitol Police said the individuals were charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding, all of which are prohibited under D.C. Code § 221307.
Dozens of protesters filtered into the Senate office building on Wednesday and lined the hallways outside senators' offices in an attempt to stop Republican senators from meeting with Kavanaugh.
An organizer initially declared they were successful in blocking the meetings on Twitter, but later deleted the tweet after the White House and multiple lawmakers confirmed that the meetings occurred.
Link to tweet
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/400017-74-protesters-charged-at-capitol-in-protest-of-kavanaugh
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)§ 221307. Crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.
(a) It is unlawful for a person, alone or in concert with others:
(1) To crowd, obstruct, or incommode:
(A) The use of any street, avenue, alley, road, highway, or sidewalk;
(B) The entrance of any public or private building or enclosure;
(C) The use of or passage through any public building or public conveyance; or
(D) The passage through or within any park or reservation; and
(2) To continue or resume the crowding, obstructing, or incommoding after being instructed by a law enforcement officer to cease the crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.
(b)(1) It is unlawful for a person, alone or in concert with others, to engage in a demonstration in an area where it is otherwise unlawful to demonstrate and to continue or resume engaging in a demonstration after being instructed by a law enforcement officer to cease engaging in a demonstration.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term demonstration means marching, congregating, standing, sitting, lying down, parading, demonstrating, or patrolling by one or more persons, with or without signs, for the purpose of persuading one or more individuals, or the public, or to protest some action, attitude, or belief.
(c) A person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, imprisoned for not more than 90 days, or both.
incommode.................
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/incommode
in·com·mode
ˌinkəˈmōd/Submit
verb formal
inconvenience (someone).
ffr
(22,671 posts)Thank you for incommoding those bastard conservatives!
Spartacus101
(93 posts)...about throwing yourself on the gears of the machine?
DBoon
(22,395 posts)There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odiousmakes you so sick at heartthat you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.
― Mario Savio
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/290036-there-s-a-time-when-the-operation-of-the-machine-becomes