NAACP president Cornell Brooks and other activists were arrested again after staging a sit-in at the Mobile, Ala., office of Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.
More than 100 people joined Brooks at Sessions’ office. The Mobile Police Department arrived Monday afternoon after receiving a trespassing complaint and, according to the NAACP, roughly 30 of the protesters were arrested.
About 30 people have been arrested in the protest, including @CornellWBrooks @benardhs and other prominent Alabama civil rights advocates. pic.twitter.com/pPuCJtoTeF
— NAACP (@NAACP) January 30, 2017
This was the second sit-in spearheaded by the NAACP against the nomination of Sessions to be President Trump’s attorney general.
Six people were arrested Jan. 3 for their role in the first sit-in at the same office. Brooks was one of them. The charges against those protestors were dropped hours earlier by a Mobile municipal prosecutor on Monday.
Sessions, who has been both the attorney general for Alabama, and the U.S. attorney and the assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama is set to be voted on by the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
The NCAAP — along with Democratic lawmakers and other civil rights groups — has been pushing for weeks for the committee to vote against Sessions’ confirmation. Every Republican is expected to vote in favor of the nomination, in which case Sessions would be confirmed.
