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Incredibly charitable of you to pretend that the tweet or whatever accurately reflects that text. 'two black lawmakers arrested for opposing legislation' is a little bit different than 'a black lawmaker and his brother arrested for interrupting the session and refusing to leave when ordered'. I think it's based of them to do that but come on.
*fuck facts I guess. They probably actually took them outside and lynched them. Maybe they even killed all the black residents of the district. It's not sensationalist enough that a lawmaker and his brother got arrested for protesting something worth getting arrested in protest of. So just lie a bit, make it 2 legislators. Deliberately paint an incomplete picture so instead of making a choice now they were just passive victims who were 'just attending a meeting'. Gotta get those reposts and upvotes in the leftist echo chambers.
Not allowed to oppose something unless you obey they rules? Not sure what point you're trying to make here, but I doubt it's a good one.
'Lawmakers oppose legislation and try to attend meeting' doesn't normally imply 'actively disrupting the legislature in protest'. It's lying by omission. Yeah technically they were 'opposing the legislation' but that's not why they were arrested.
Turns out they do actually arrest you when you try to get arrested to bring attention to something.
I'm kind of baffled that you're doubling down on refusing to acknowledge the amount of spin.
I don't think you can separate the cause and the action is this case. And yes, protest is disruptive. Holding a sign in a free speech zone doesn't do anything.