'Choose between upholding your oath and removing Trump,' by_the_ppl's avtorres4 warns, 'or protecting Trump and betraying our country”
On Wednesday , President Donald Trump was impeached from the House of Representative. And on Thursday , Anthony Torres was arrested.
That morning, the 25-year-old communications and political director for the activist group By the People had marched with about 50 other people to the capitol in a push to “set the terms of the public debate for [President Donald] Trump's trial” in the Senate. Carrying massive blue signs that read “Your choice/The constitution/or Trump,” they went directly to Senate Majority Mitch McConnell’s office and asked him to vote to remove the president from office.
“We prepared for that, and we were committing civil disobedience,” Torres told MTV News. But he and the other activists stood their ground. “These offices are actually for us,” he added. “We have to be using our bodies and our voices to disrupt business as usual… So we occupied the office of Senator Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader, because Mitch McConnell has made very clear so far that he's chosen his side, and his side is not the people.
Torres started working with By the People as a volunteer in August of 2018, and joined the group full-time as a staffer in September of this year. The timing was no accident — that month, news broke that a whistleblower had filed a report regarding a June, following
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