Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested in DC this week and it was barely even a news story.
No surprise here - remember when his son was sent to prison a little while back?
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Bishop William Barber II were both arrested Wednesday while protesting against the filibuster and Republican opposition to a federal minimum wage increase outside the U.S. Capitol.
"We come not as an insurrection group, but as a resurrection group," Jackson shouted as the two men marched down Constitution Avenue with hundreds of demonstrators," according to the Religion News Service. "Today we must fill up the jails. … If you call yourself a child of God, you oughta act like it sometimes."
In all, nearly two dozen protesters were taken into custody during the Poor People’s Campaign rally, accused of crowding and blocking traffic, according to FOX 5 in Washington.
The civil rights activists called on Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to support a $15 minimum wage and pass the Democrats’ voting rights bill that Republicans successfully filibustered Tuesday.
The bill required 60 votes to advance to debate but received only 50, with no Republicans voting yes on what McConnell called a "rotten" proposal.
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: Rev Jesse Jackson Sr stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on October 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. Today the high court is scheduled to hear arguments on Fisher V. University of Texas at Austin, and are tasked with ruling on whether the university's consideration of race in admissions is constitutional. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)