Four school students protesting in favour of tighter gun control measures were arrested outside Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Paul Ryan’s office after a brief sit-in in Washington DC on Wednesday.
After being given three warnings by Capitol police, four of the dozen girls remained lying on the ground. They were then flex-cuffed and brought outside to a police van where they were searched and taken to a juvenile facility.
The protest passed off peacefully. When asked for the reason of the protest, one girl answered “We need to send a message, we need to stop dying.”