Police in Virginia arrested NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks on Monday to end a six-hour sit-in calling for the restoration of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965. The sit-in took place inside Virginia Congressmember Bob Goodlatte’s office. Brooks and Stephen Green, the national director of the group’s youth and college division, were arrested for trespassing when Goodlatte’s office closed at 5 p.m. The NAACP says Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, has failed to hold a hearing on what they describe as “egregious voter discrimination” across the country.
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