Approximately 75 protestors and dozens of reporters joined Reverend Jesse Jackson, Jarrett Maupin Sr., Arizona Sen. Martin Quezada in a short civil rights march outside of Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s office in Phoenix on Monday morning.
Thirty-nine attendees, including Jackson, were briefly arrested after the owners of the privately owned building called police.
The march started at Kachina Park in Phoenix around 9 a.m. and ended at Sinema’s office in the area of near 32nd Street and Camelback Road at about 11 a.m.
Officers asked the group to leave the premises several times. The attendees ignored police. At around 11:45 a.m., the 39 people were arrested, cited, and released.
The group was protesting Sen. Sinema’s opposition to vote to end the filibuster.
Sinema’s office released a statement noting she supports the voting rights legislation but repeated her stance against ending the filibuster.
“Would it be good for our country if we did, only to see that legislation rescinded a few years from now and replaced by a nationwide voter-ID law or restrictions on voting by mail in federal elections, over the objections of the Senate minority?” a spokesperson for Sinema asked.
