Six people, including the national president and CEO of the NAACP, were arrested Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in at Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) Mobile, Alabama office.
They were protesting Sessions’ nomination to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general.
NAACP President Cornell William Brooks posted a picture of what he said were mug shots of the six people who were arrested on his Twitter page early Wednesday morning, writing “After the @jeffsessions sit-in, these mugshots aren’t pretty but they’re pictures of @NAACP determination. #RestoreTheVRA & #stopsessions”.
AL.com reported that, in addition to Brooks, five other people were arrested on charges of second-degree criminal trespassing. The arrestees included Benard Simelton, the president of the NAACP’s Alabama state conference; Devon Crawford, a fellow at the NAACP; Lizzetta McConnell, the president of the NAACP’s Mobile chapter; Stephen Green, the national director of the NAACP’s youth and college division; and Joe Keffer.
According to the same report, about 30 people were participating in the sit-in at Sessions’ office at one point.
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No one is listening: they should have gotten the vote out during the election instead of sitting on the fence.
If every Democrat in ALA came out to vote and voted for Clinton it wouldn’t have made a difference. They are in the minority in a state that is still very racist. Don’t blame these good folks who themselves arrested for standing for their principles.