Dr. Cornell West Arrested is what many headlines read this morning. This was after hearing that author, commentator, civil rights activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West had been arrested while protesting on the steps of the Supreme Court about corporate influence in politics.
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A Supreme Court spokeswoman says 19 people were arrested Sunday afternoon after they refused to leave the grounds of the court.
Ann Wilcox, an attorney and legal adviser to the protesters, says West was among those arrested. West attended the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall before joining the October 2011 Stop the Machine protest in Washington’s Freedom Plaza.
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“We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.” After speaking those words on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Princeton University professor Dr. Cornel West was arrested.
The protest is marking 10 years since the start of the war in Afghanistan and has an anti-war and anti-corporate greed message.
West is a well-known left-leaning academic whose books include “Race Matters” and “Democracy Matters.”
