Yesterday after attending the dedication for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, R&B Singer Raheem DeVaughn and social activist Dr. Cornel West were both arrested for participating in the OccupyDC protest.
BET.com reports:
DeVaughn and West were with several other protesters at the steps of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., when police placed them in handcuffs and carried them away along with 17 others, according to ABC News. Earlier in the afternoon on Sunday, West had attended the dedication of the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial nearby. He invoked the late civil rights icon while standing with the demonstrators.Watch the video below:
"We will not let this day of Martin Luther King's memorial go by without somebody being arrested," West declared into a megaphone, as seen in a video captured of the event. "Because Martin King would be right here with us willing to throw down out of deep love!"
The "Occupy" protesters, who have been demonstrating for one month as of today, have articulated a long list of grievances with the status quo, chief among them income inequality and the influence of corporate or "Wall Street" interests in governance. At the Supreme Court, Dr. West carried a sign scrawled with a quote from Gandhi.
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