Georgia Lawmaker ARRESTED For Knocking On Republican Governor's Door

A democratic lawmaker in Georgia was arrested on reportedly charged with two felonies on Thursday evening after she knocked on the door of the Governor's office while he was signing one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country. The lawmaker was black, and that tells you everything you need to know about why this happened. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Georgia state representative and Democrat Park Cannon was arrested on Thursday evening. And according to the arrest affidavit obtained by CNN being charged with two felonies, the felonies include, um, let's see, uh, obstruction and preventing or disrupting general assembly session in the state of Georgia. So what could have compelled officers to arrest this democratic lawmaker, a black female democratic lawmaker? Uh, well, she knocked on the door of Republican governor Brian Kemp's office, as he was signing one of the most restrictive voting suppressing, uh, suppression bills in the country.

Here's a video clip of

Park cannon being arrested. And you can see she, she did nothing wrong. She wasn't being hostile. She wasn't being aggressive. She knocked on the door and the cops put her in handcuffs here.

You said you gave her one more time. Like you're going to do something. No, you are not representing. She's not under arrest under arrest for what? We're trying to see something that our governor is doing. Our governor is signing a bill that affects all Georgians. You're going to arrest an elected representative. Why does the governor have more power than there that our representative, why are you arresting her? Arresting her the violation side, the pose. What is she in violation of? I want you to cite the code side, the code cited one of your side, the code side, the code side, the code.

Again, she's being charged with two felonies for knocking on that door. She is a state representative and elected official, and she was asking valid questions. Why, why is this happening behind closed doors? Why can't we see why didn't he want anybody to see what's happening here? And in case you're not familiar with this piece of legislation, this is the fabled voter suppression bill passed in Georgia. That makes it illegal among many other things to hand out food or drinks to people waiting in long voting lines. Now that claim is the one that's kind of captured the headlines, but it also limits Dropbox's, uh, limits voting by mail who can vote absentee. Uh, it limits polling hours. Polling places basically tries to shrink the population of Georgia that is able to easily cast a ballot while making it very hard for voters of color in particular, to cast their ballots in the state of Georgia.

This is in response to fact that they lost their two Senate seats to Democrats. And the fact that the state turned blue in the 2020 election, they use Donald Trump's bogus claims of voter fraud to help push this legislation. And this is the end result. This is exactly what they wanted. Even though officials in Georgia had been basically just absolutely, uh, demolished by Donald Trump for not defending his claims of voter fraud in the state. They still use those very claims to pass this law and folks, this is just the beginning. As we have said, there are a couple hundred pieces of similar legislation spread out across the United States right now, and this is what they all want to do. But what happened to representative cannon? There is absolutely inexcusable and I guarantee you, this would not have happened if she were white. I think we all need to address that elephant in the room, because that is a fact, I mean, hell, we saw up in Michigan last summer, all those white angry people with guns storm, their Capitol go in there, scream in the face of police officers. Nothing happened to them. And here we have a mild-mannered representative and elected official who was allowed to be in that building.

And she gets put in handcuffs. You look at the picture side by side of her being arrested versus what happened in Michigan. And you tell me if you can spot the difference.

Okay.