9 face charges in blockading D.C. abortion clinic with chain and rope
The group of nine protesters in D.C. began conspiring through calls and text messages on Oct. 15, 2020, prosecutors said. They were scattered in various states, including Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey, court records show, and agreed to meet in D.C. to execute their plan.At some point after Oct. 15, Lauren Handy, a 28-year-old from Alexandria, Va., called the clinic to make an appointment for 9 a.m. on Oct. 22 under the alias “Hazel Jenkins.
Handy arrived minutes before the clinic opened and approached a medical specialist, identifying herself as Jenkins, the indictment says.of Arlington, Va., created a Facebook event called “No one dies today,” prosecutors said, adding in the description “Starting soon! Tune in!” Once the facility opened, Darnel started a Facebook Live video, and the group “forcefully pushed through the clinic door into the clinic’s waiting room,” the indictment says. As he charged in, Jay Smith, 32, of Freeport, N.Y., caused a nurse “to stumble and sprain her ankle,” prosecutors said.As members of the group blocked the doors with chairs, Paulette Harlow, 73, of Kingston, Mass., allegedly unloaded a duffel bag filled with a chain and rope.
Meanwhile, two others — William Goodman, 52, of the Bronx and Heather Idoni, 61, of Linden, Mich. — stationed themselves in front of the employee entrance. A patient who had arrived for her appointment attempted to enter the clinic using both doors but she was blocked by the group, the indictment says.
Darnel continued documenting the events on Facebook Live, prosecutors said, at one point saying the “rescuers are doing their job. They’re not allowing women to enter the abortion clinic.”
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