Ben & Jerry co-founder Ben Cohen has been arrested for protesting during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate hearing.
The millionaire was one of seven to be hauled out of the dramatic Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee meeting yesterday (May 15), at the US Capitol in Washington DC.
His demonstration came as RFK Jr. was giving testimony to the committee - having been named the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by President Donald Trump, back in February.
Advert
Shocking footage captured of the incident shows the 74-year-old businessman protesting the war in Gaza and the US' involvement in it, accusing the government of causing the deaths of Palestinian children.
"You're killing poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids here," Cohen can be heard shouting before he was apprehended by a cop.
As he was being removed from the premises Cohen could still be heard demonstrating as he shouted: "Congress and the senators need to ease the siege. They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids."
Advert
The entrepreneur has since taken to Twitter, posting: "I told Congress they're killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they're paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities' response."
While adding later: "I can't call myself an American and not put my body on the line.
"For me, our government-funded destruction and slaughter of families living in Gaza is an attack on justice, common decency, and what I had thought was the American way. The American way that Superman used to defend, along with Truth and Justice."
Advert
Earlier on in the day, Cohen is understood to have had attended a pro-Palestine event alongside Democratic Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib.
During the same meeting, at the same time, one protestor took sight at RFK Jr., shouting: "RFK kills people with AIDs!"
While chants of 'when Bobby lies, children die', and 'anti-vax, anti-science, anti-America', could also be heard.
The other six protestors, excluding Cohen, were arrested and charged with resisting arrest and assault on an officer.
Advert
In the same meeting, the 71-year-old HHS boss was also quizzed on his beliefs about vaccines - having made numerous claims about the harm vaccines can cause, which have been overwhelmingly debunked by experts in the field.
One of those claims were that vaccines cause autism, a theory that has been discredited.
The comments Kennedy made in the meeting have caused some people to call for him to resign.
Joe Yates