Local police confirmed that 575 people were charged with unlawfully demonstrating outside the U. S. Senate building, with Sarandon later revealing that she was among\u2026<\/b>
\nLocal police confirmed that 575 people were charged with unlawfully demonstrating outside the U. S. Senate building, with Sarandon later revealing that she was among them.
\u201cPowerful, beautiful action with hundreds of women saying we demand the reunification of families separated by immoral ICE policy,\u201d Sarandon wrote on Twitter. \u201cThis is what Democracy looks like. #WomenDisobey.\u201d
Sarandon urged the activists to continue to \u201cfight.\u201d
\u201cWhat do we want? Free families!\u201d the protesters chanted, a reference to the now-halted practice of separating children from their parents at the southern border, as part of the Trump administration\u2019s zero tolerance approach to illegal immigration.
It is not the first time Susan Sarandon has been detained for her political activism. In 1999, she was arrested during a protest against police brutality following the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in New York, although the police did not pursue charges against her.
The 72-year-old actress is one of Hollywood\u2019s many critics of Donald Trump but has previously suggested that he may have been less damaging than a President Hillary Clinton.
\u201cI did think she was very, very dangerous,\u201d she said in an interview with The Guardian . \u201cWe would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she was president]. It wouldn\u2019t be much smoother.\u201d
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