Civil rights activists arrested protesting Trump's Attorney General pick
Police in Alabama arrested six African-American civil rights activists staging a sit-in at Senator Jeff Sessions' office on Tuesday to protest his nomination for US Attorney General, criticizing his record on voting rights and race relations.
Sessions, 70, has a history of controversial positions on race, immigration and criminal justice reform.
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had vowed to occupy Sessions' Mobile, Alabama office until the conservative Republican lawmaker either withdrew as a candidate or they were arrested.
In the end, Cornell Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP, and Stephen Green, national director of the youth division of the NAACP, were among those arrested, according to a post on the Twitter page of the civil rights organization.
The other four protesters arrested by police included Benard Simelton, president of the NAACP's Alabama state conference, and Devon Crawford of the group Humanity in Action, according to local news outlet AL.com.
