FREEPORT, Ill.(AP) â The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been arrested in a group of protesting northern Illinois workers during an act of civil disobedience in Freeport.
Michael Peery, a spokesman for Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, tells The Associated Press that Jackson was taken into custody Wednesday with about a dozen workers. He is expected to be released later in the day.
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FREEPORT (WIFR)-Jackson spent most of the afternoon in "Bainportâ, the make-shift campsite that's been home to Sensata employees and their supporters for the last 40 days. Things took a turn around 4:00 p.m. when Jackson and about a dozen workers decided to march onto company property, before being arrested by police
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A caravan of about 50 former workers and supporters headed to the fire department where the people who were arrested are to be released.