Ben Cohen, the “Ben” of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was arrested on Wednesday by Capitol Police in Washington after authorities say he disrupted a congressional hearing as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was testifying.

Cohen appeared to have someone standing by to record the incident, and video of it was posted on X.

As a police officer was guiding him down a hallway, he yelled, “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the U.S.”

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