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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 22, 2021, 04:15:17 pm
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Eight climate change protesters are arrested outside Ted Cruz's $2million Texas home after they refused to get off his lawn in hour-long standoff with police
Around 70 members of the climate change activist Sunrise Movement staged a protest at Cruz's Houston home on Monday
Police were called and negotiated with several demonstrators who refused to get off the senator's lawn
Eight activists were eventually arrested for trespassing before being taken into custody
It's the third time this year that protests have been staged outside Cruz's plush $2million pad
In April, busloads of people showed up outside the home to demonstrate against inaction from congressional representatives
In February, outraged constituents marched on the property calling on Cruz to resign after he fled to Cancun, Mexico amid widespread power outages in Texas
By Andrew Court For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:22 EDT, 22 June 2021 | Updated: 11:49 EDT, 22 June 2021
Eight people have been arrested for trespassing during a climate change protest outside Ted Cruz's Houston home.
Around 70 activists staged a demonstration outside the Texas senator's $2million property in the ritzy River Oaks neighborhood on Monday morning, before police were called to the scene.
The protest was held by the Sunrise Movement, an organization advocating for political action on climate change, with video showing some of the participants sitting on Cruz's front lawn and refusing to budge.
Police negotiated with some of the activists for more than an hour and threatened to take them into custody if they did not get off Cruz's property.
Eight of the protesters refused to yield and were arrested.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9712719/Eight-climate-change-protesters-arrested-outside-Ted-Cruzs-2million-Texas-home.html
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Dangerous Insurrectionists.
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Why is it important on the value of his home anyway in the headline?
Think someone writing article has some bias?
I don't recall the protests surrounding Pelosi's SF home last year had her home value reported, and it for sure was several times what Cruz's home value is.
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Hmmm....
That's what $2 million buys in Houston?
Ya get more for your money in Westchester County or across the line in Connecticut.
Note to Mr. Cruz:
If you can afford the house, put an iron fence around it...
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Fine looking bunch of slack-jawed mouth-breathers.
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"Negotiated" for an hour?! Should have ordered them off immediately, given the rabble 5 minutes to comply, and then radioed for back up to arrest the lot!
Houston's PD has been politicized. Had this been SheLiah Jackson Lee's home, what I said above would have been what was done.