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NAACP protesters arrested after sit-in at Sessions’ office

They oppose his nomination to be attorney general

By KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press
Published: January 3, 2017, 8:32pm
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Several NAACP protesters led by their national president were escorted away in handcuffs by police after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said.

The organization held the demonstration to protest Sessions’ nomination by President-elect Donald Trump, saying Sessions has a questionable record on civil rights and “can’t be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights.”

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