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The Kansas Highway Patrol hauled away 23 vocal and defiant protesters after they demanded Medicaid expansion, then allegedly tried to block legislators from entering the Kansas Senate last March during a protest at the Kansas Statehouse.
At a time when authorities are gearing up for the possibility of possible armed protests, Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay s office is pursuing criminal charges against at least nine people allegedly involved in last March s protest.
Here are the details of the case.
What happened?
The Poor People s Campaign organized the protest. Participants arrived at the Statehouse on March 10, two hours before the Senate was set to gavel in. They spent two hours at the third-floor railing in front of the Senate chambers chanting and expressing outrage over Kansas lawmakers refusal to expand Medicaid coverage. They sang, chanted, stomped their feet and banged inflated red tubes together.
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