By Molly Claire Goddard
12:50am PDT, May 16, 2025
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One of the founding members of Ben & Jerry's caused an uproar at a recent Senate hearing.
On Wednesday, May 14,
Ben Cohen was arrested on Capitol Hill after claiming
Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Department Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was "killing" people with his beliefs.
Keep reading to hear what the ice cream magnet said that got him taken into custody…
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According to United States Capitol
Police, Ben Cohen was one of seven people arrested after attending and
disrupting a Senate hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During the gathering, the co-founder of the famous company — who was arrested on charges of obstruction — arose from his seat and, along with a group of others, yelled, "RFK kills people with hate!"
They were quickly escorted out of the hearing by officers.
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Senator
Bill Cassidy — the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — addressed the disturbance and condemned the people trying to make a political statement.
"Members of the audience are reminded disruptions will not be permitted while the committee conducts its business.
Capitol Police are asked to remove the individuals from the hearing room," he stated. "That was a made-for-C-SPAN moment."
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This is far from the first time Ben Cohen has made his views on right-wing politics known. The entrepreneur arrested in 2023 for blocking the entrance to the Department of Justice while protesting the detainment of
Julian Assange.
Since Cohen launched the company with
Jerry Greenfield in 1978, the two have been outspoken about their
liberal views. In 2021, they stopped selling their products to Israelis in the West Bank — after they claimed it was "Occupied Palestinian Territory."
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During back-to-back congressional hearings on Wednesday, May 14, tension was evident between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Democratic politicians over his controversial health stances.
"You told the public that the vaccine wanes very quickly," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said to the environmental attorney. "You went on the Dr. Phil Show and said that the measles vaccine was never fully tested for safety. You said there's fetal debris in the measles vaccine."
"I'm going to tell the truth about everything we know and we don't know about vaccines," Kennedy Jr. replied. "I am not going to just tell people everything is safe and effective if I know that there are issues. I need to respect people's intelligence."
