Congressman Raul Grijalva’s Washington, D.C. office confirmed the congressman was arrested today, although office spokesman Adam Sarvana said he doesn’t know what Grijalva was charged with after he was arrested at an immigration reform rally today.
Here’s @RepRaulGrijalva getting arrested during a demonstration to push for immigration reform. pic.twitter.com/t5SO5urHRd
— Alan Gomez (@alangomez) October 8, 2013
(Photo Credit: Alan Gomez/USA TODAY)
Sarvana told The Range that the arrest was a planned act of civil disobedience. Grijalva was sitting on a road in a circle with other members of Congress and immigration-reform activists. When D.C. police asked them to move, they refused and the entire group was arrested.
From an ABC affiliate:
Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva was arrested Tuesday in Washington D.C., his spokesman confirmed to ABC15.
Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat who represents Arizona’s 3rd district, was arrested during a “planned civil disobedience” with a group of his colleagues in Washington D.C., said Adam Sarvana, his spokesman.
Sarvana said Grijalva was being booked around 1:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. EDT) and was expected to be released by Tuesday evening.
Specific details regarding what the civil disobedience was were not immediately available.
Grijalva serves on the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Education and The Workforce, according to his Congressional profile.
This article appears in Oct 3-9, 2013.
Hopefully, this buffoon will remain in prison which is where he belongs.
i admire him for it. first time i ever saw him in trouble for a cause he feels strongly about .
Just hope the DT’s don’t kick in too soon.
Can we deport him like right now Grijalva does not like Arizona let put him on the next jackass heading south….
Does anyone like Arizona right now? We’re the most moronic state in the US right now, definitely not friend to education, working poor, immigrants, women, or children. Anyone “liking” AZ politics right now has their up their ass.
Yes! Grijalva now joins the very short list of Congressman, along with Luis Gutierrez, who have the cojones and are willing to be handcuffed for a cause that they believe in. Apparently, Republican Congressman are unwilling to risk sullying their Men’s Wearhouse suits, brave the mystery meat cuisine or fathom, even a day, missing Happy Hour.
Hey Weekly, just so you know, there are far more trolls on ADS with this story than there are on here…..how refreshing!
Congressman Grijalva is standing up for a cause he AND his constituents believe in. He wouldn’t keep being elected if that wasn’t true.
What an embarassment! Our US Congressman arrested like a common criminal. Isn’t he sworn to uphold the law?
I thought the National Mall was closed? Wow!
“Standing up for his constituents” …. the illegal immigrants who voted for him?