Law enforcement used flashbangs and tear gas to disperse the crowd as hundreds of people protesting for abortion rights gathered at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Friday night after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the nearly 50-year nationwide right to an abortion.
Late Friday, law enforcement in Arizona used tear gas to disperse a crowd of abortion rights supporters protesting outside the State Capitol in Phoenix.
“Troopers deployed tear gas after a crowd of protesters repeatedly pounded on the glass doors of the State Senate Building,” said Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bart Graves.
“The left is showing everyone what a REAL ‘Insurrection’ looks like right now in Downtown Phoenix,” Kari Lake, a GOP candidate for governor, said in a tweet. She criticized Gov. Doug Ducey for not quickly deploying the National Guard and called for arrests.
Demonstrators have rallied outside the Supreme Court and around the country since the 5-4 ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe, returning the fight over abortion rights to the states. In Phoenix, pro-abortion demonstrators carried signs with messages such as “Abort SCOTUS” and chanted, “My body, my choice.”
Violent Pro-Abortion Activists attacked our Arizona Capitol. Not a single one of them was Arrested. Why? pic.twitter.com/IlQ3mLioz5
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) June 25, 2022
Riot police deployed to defend Capitol earlier pic.twitter.com/PeB65h5NHJ
— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) June 25, 2022