FBI agents raid house, arrest pro-life advocate in front of wife and kids

(daily signalMark Hook, a father of seven and pro-life advocate, woke up Friday morning to a team of FBI agents raiding his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. rice field. Hook’s wife, Ryan Murray, said. LifeSiteNews that 25-30 FBI agents break into your home around 7am

“The kids were all yelling. Ryan-Marie Houck told Life Site News about her husband’s arrest, which she and her children witnessed.” and said he pleaded with the FBI agent to calm down.

“They were pointing their big, giant rifles at Mark, at me, all over the house,” Ryan Marie Hauk told the Prolife news outlet.

catholic news agency report The FBI confirmed that Mark Houck was arrested “without incident” outside his home on Friday morning.

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according to federal court documentsHouck was arrested on October 13, 2021, for assaulting a 72-year-old volunteer (whose name was not given) at Planned Parenthood’s Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center abortion clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A Philadelphia district court conducted an inquiry earlier this summer and dismissed the charges against Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie. Said Life site news. She said her husband sometimes brought her eldest son along. She added that “pro-abortionists” would repeatedly say “vulgar…inappropriate and disgusting things” to their 12-year-old son, such as “Your dad smokes” and other vulgar slurs.

Ryan-Marie Hook said her husband repeatedly told her son to stop verbally harassing her. But the man didn’t stop. At one point, the man “just came in” [the son’s] It’s your personal space,” says Ryan-Marie Houck. “Mark kept him away from the child and the man fell on his back…he had no injuries or anything but he tried to sue Mark.”

Bryan Middleton, a friend of the Hook family, said: daily signal that “[Mark] I was protecting my son from a man who was verbally abusing him. He stepped between them and asked them to stop. The man leaned over and continued to verbally abuse. Mark stretched out his arm to push his assailant away from his son. “Mark, on the advice of his attorney, will be unavailable until further notice,” Middleton added.

Tweet this: Life supporter Mark Houck defended his young son against pro-abortion harassment, led to FBI/SWAT raids and subsequent arrests

Senator Doug Mastriano, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, released statement After Hook’s arrest. “The continued weaponization of the FBI and Joe Biden’s DOJ persecution of ordinary Americans is outrage,” Mastriano wrote, adding:

This morning, a heavily armed SWAT team of dozens of FBI agents raided Mark Houck’s home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to investigate his wife’s death in a case long dismissed by a Philadelphia district court. I took the scary children and searched the house. His seven children, Mark and Ryan-Mary Hauck, were traumatized and in tears as they watched their parents be held at gunpoint and their father handcuffed and taken away. .

After Friday’s arrest, Houck appeared in the Eastern District Court in Pennsylvania. He was charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance (FACE) Act.This makes it a federal crime “to use force to harm, intimidate, or interfere with any person because that person is the provider of his care, reproductive health. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Eastern District of the Prosecutor’s Office wrote on Friday press release.

Authorities released Hook later that day, but he is now facing felonyIf convicted, Houck could face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $350,000.

Tweet this: More than two dozen FBI agents flocked to the home of Mark Houck, father of seven and pro-life advocate, to mutilate his family with trumped-up charges.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts tweeted Saturday. (The Daily Signal is his The Heritage Foundation news agency.)

“It doesn’t make you an insurrectionist for saying that. Rather, it is the Department of Justice that is ‘threatening democracy,'” he added.

Like I said, the Mar-a-Lago raid isn’t just President Trump’s problem, it’s all of us.

Saying that doesn’t make someone a rebel. If anything, it is the Department of Justice that is “threatening democracy.”https://t.co/CRe7yOQYfQ

— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) September 24, 2022

GiveSendGo motion Raised by the Hook family [$230,000 as of PHN press time].

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