Several leaders of the NAACP including its president Cornell William Brooks were arrested on Tuesday evening after staging a sit-in protest.

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NAACP Members Arrested Protesting Trump Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions

 


According to CNN, the six protesters were charged with criminal trespass in the second-degree.

The protester occurred Tuesday saying they would stay until Sessions is no longer the nominee or they were arrested. “We are asking the senator to withdraw his name for consideration as attorney general or for the President-elect, Donald Trump, to withdraw the nomination,” Brooks said Tuesday afternoon from Sessions’ office.
“In the midst of rampant voter suppression, this nominee has failed to acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while pretending to believe in the myth of voter fraud.”
Earlier in the day, Alabama NAACP President Benard Simelton said he and 15-20 others were there “conducting business as usual” and would remain until “Sessions meets our demands or the arrest — whichever he chooses.”

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Jeff Sessions controversial racial history

Donald Trump nominated Sessions for the position of attorney general in November. However, the announcement has sparked tremendous outrage among many who have denounced Sessions’ history of racism and voter suppression. Jeff Sessions was appointed by Reagan for a federal judgeship in 1986, however, was deemed to be too racist for the role and his nomination was later rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The rejection followed a series of confirmation hearings during which he addressed numerous allegations, including that he once called a black attorney “boy,” joked that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was ‘OK’ ― that is, until he discovered that members smoked marijuana ― and referred to civil rights groups, like the NAACP, as “un-American.”

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