NAACP Stages Sit-in at Jeff Sessions’ Office to Protest of His Nomination as Attorney General
Style Magazine Newswire | 1/4/2017, 8:08 a.m.
Source: The Grio
Donald Trump wants Jeff Sessions to be attorney general and the NAACP isn’t having it.
Tuesday, national NAACP President Cornell Brooks and Alabama NAACP President Bernard Simelton led a sit in at the Alabama senator’s Mobile office. Participants refused to leave until Sessions withdraws from consideration as Trump’s attorney general or the group gets arrested.
“This is not some kind of civic game,” Brooks insisted in an interview. He also encouraged their supporters to, “also engage in thoughtful civil disobedience.”
“Our main concern is centered around the reality of voter suppression. We have found no evidence of his ability, past or present, to be impartial and unbiased as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, especially in the areas of civil rights, voting rights and equal protection under the law.”
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