Disability group fights electric shock treatment of autistic youth

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Disabled activists huddle together for warmth on a cold day in Washington, D.C. They came to educate Congress members about why it is important to stop shock treatment of disabled youth and adults. A police officer tells them to vacate the park due to an oncoming storm.
PHOTO/ADAPT, FACEBOOK

By Shark Barros, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

Coming into D.C. in March, 2018, to support National ADAPT, a national grassroots disability rights organization which works to secure rights and liberties for disabled Americans. There we protested the inhumane torture and shock treatment of autistic youth at the Judge Rotenberg Center run by Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
Shame on America, shame on this corrupt system that still allows this kind of treatment to anybody!
Witnessing the abuse by the state of Washington, D.C., to the National ADAPT contingent was sad. Turning the cheek to the pain and suffering of the ADAPT protesters, showed the evilness of today’s society.
Going to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) building, I watch as the pretend cops belittle the protesters by saying they will scream and holler and then go away: they will out-wait us!
No response from the FDA so we shut down the freeway in Maryland! Shutting down the freeway in both directions brought out police from Maryland and Washington, D.C.—talking down to us from both sides of their mouths and threatening us with arrest—which they did.
ADAPT warriors holding down until rush hour—all night until 5 a.m.
Wet, cold, freezing sick and tired—ADAPT are put on buses to be thrown off a bus in D.C., with no power for the wheelchair and sick, painful, tired, but no matter what their spirits are stronger today!
To fight your battles under these conditions will tell the world we are moving forward—come rain or shine, police-abuse, or death. The struggle continues. We call upon the world to see that we will no longer sit idle no more. Stop the shock, stop the torture. This is unacceptable. A better world is possible if we struggle together! No more shock, no more torture! ADAPT will be back!
Contact ADAPT at www.adapt.org.

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