PHILADELPHIA — Susan Sarandon was briefly kept out of her own protest by police Wednesday after she failed to display the proper credentials to get back inside the media tent.
Sarandon stepped outside to address the media as several hundred Bernie Sanders supporters were gathered inside the tent adjacent to the Democratic National Convention. Police formed a blockade at the doors of the tent, permitting protesters to leave but barring anyone not holding a press pass from re-entering.
“You have nothing that says ‘correspondent,’ ‘reporter?'” an officer asked Sarandon as she tried to get back inside.
“It’s Susan Sarandon,” someone else said as she was ushered away to dig through her purse.
She ultimately produced the proper credentials and was allowed back in.
Sarandon, Danny Glover and Rosario Dawson formed the celebrity contingent supporting prominent Sanders surrogate and former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, who said she was stripped of her speaking assignment at the DNC.
