North Carolina Pastor, known for decades of activism for progressive causes, was arrested in the Capitol Rotonda on Monday, less than a week after the formation of the special group of Trump administration for anti-Christian bias at the Ministry of Justice.
The arrest came on Monday afternoon when Reverend William Barber and others prayed in Capitol; Earlier during the day, the Reverend presented a sermon on the steps of the Capitol and also gave a moral address on Monday at the Supreme Court. For the first time reported by Jack Jenkins of Religion News Service (RNS), photos showed barbers and others surrounded by police officers in Capitol in the United States, including a single vest for a “crime scene”.
Jenkins said on a subsequent tweet that Barber and two others were arrested at the scene. Others were cleared from the vicinity of the Rotunda, which is often open to tours and public members.
Independent has turned to the organization of Barber, the devices of the violation and the police in the United States for more information.
“Let’s think we went in to pray – to pray against the budget, but to pray – and the order now is that if you pray, you are considered a violation of the rules of the Rotunda,” Barber told RNS after his arrest. “We hope that people will see this and it will begin to remove some of the fear and people will understand that this is the moment – now – we have to get involved in inspired direct action to register our dissatisfaction.”
The Capitol police spokesman confirmed to RNS that Barber was arrested for violating a ban on civil demonstrations within Capitol. A video of the incident showed that reporters were threatened by arrest for staying in the Rotunda.
Barber’s moral campaign on Monday has extended more than a decade. The long -standing progressive activist, Barber is the leader of the poor people’s campaign and has hosted weekly moral rallies on Monday and sermons around his home, where he spoke in favor of policies, including raising the minimum wage and support for labor rights.
During the Biden administration, he was part of an unsuccessful offer to press the administration for the adoption of voting rights legislation, especially in the countries held by the Republicans.
It opposes the widespread federal abbreviations of the Trump Administration as a cause this year, with the main anger of voters being united in the reduction of the Social Security Administration and the threats that the upcoming GOP budget will include many US reductions. Barber answered the address of the President at a joint session of Roland Martin’s Black Star network in March.
On a “hand” day of action in Washington earlier in April, Barber also gave a fiery address criticizing the Trump administration’s agenda and Republican-controlled congress.
“When their crazy budget plans can remove 36 million people from healthcare and millions of poor children with low salaries from school lunch and refuse to raise salaries for 14 million working American people with low salary from $ 7.25 to $ 16, we have to pray:” God, give us bold! “
He then shouted at the crowd, “Take off your hands on our Medicaid! Take off your hands from our Medicare! Take off your hands out of voice! Remove your hands from our living salaries! Take off your hands from your public education! Download your hands from our lives!”
Donald Trump’s administration has announced the formation of a “working group” at the Ministry of Justice, which is believed to be aimed at eradicating the “anti -Christian policies” in the federal government. The group, chaired by Prosecutor General Pam Bondi, had his first meeting last week.
“As President Trump said, the Biden administration is involved in an outrageous focus on peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent anti -Christian crimes,” Bondi said on Tuesday, according to Spectrum News.
In January, the president also pardoned Christian activists who invaded and blocked entrances to abortion clinics in Washington.
In a speech in Munich, Germany, in February Vice President J. Adam Smith-Constant was convicted of breaching a safe zone after refusing the applications to cross the city of Bournemut to the southern coast and received a two-year conditional discharge. The Safe Zone prohibits any activity either in favor of or against an abortion. It is designed to prevent harassment of women using the facility and staff working there.