NAACP protesters were just arrested during a sit-in to oppose one of Trumps major Cabinet nominees

[ismnotwasm]

NAACP protesters prepared for the worst: Either Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions withdrew from consideration as Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee or they’d risk arrest during a sit-in at Sessions’s Mobile, Alabama, office.

NAACP president Cornell William Brooks announced the sit-in on Tuesday. And seven hours later, the NAACP protesters were arrested when they refused to leave Sessions’s office.

The sit-in was part of the NAACP’s wider protests against Sessions’s nomination. The civil rights organizations said on Tuesday that it plans to protest in five of Sessions’s Alabama offices — in Mobile, Huntsville, Dothan, Birmingham, and Montgomery. And former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who served in the defense of community activists that Sessions previously prosecuted, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee asking them to oppose Sessions’s nomination.

“As a matter of conscience and conviction, we can neither be mute nor mumble our opposition to Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions becoming attorney general of the United States,” Brooks said in a statement. “Sen. Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped-up charges of voter fraud. As an opponent of the vote, he can’t be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights.”

http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/3/14158144/naacp-jeff-sessions-sit-in

[yeoman6987]

1. They should not have been arrested

He's in Washington DC. Ridiculous to arrest for protesting an empty office.

[Johnathan146]

2. The office likely isnt open 24/7

Staff needs to go home, and they need to close the office for the night.

[yeoman6987]

3. Good point. I didn't get that clearly enough

[notdarkyet]

4. Sessions

I really don't want him to get in, not just because of his racism, but he has declared war on medical marijuana. I'm sure this will get millions of tweets, calls and letters. Please let him go down.

[Sissyk]

5. Mr. Brooks told Wolf on CNN that he knew they

Would be arrested but were willing to go through that to voice their opposition to Sessions.

Good job! I'm very proud, and have much respect, for them.

[Cha]

6. Good on them! Mahalo for this, Ism!