*The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been arrested in a group of protesting northern Illinois workers during an act of civil disobedience in Freeport, Ill.
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.
Freeport police didn’t immediately have comment.
Sensata Technologies is owned by Bain Capital and in the process of moving its Freeport manufacturing operations to China, a move that will cost Freeport 170 jobs.
Company officials argue that most of the plant’s revenues are generated in Asia, making the move a logical decision.
The civil rights leader has been among other high-profile supporters who’ve visited the workers. The Rev. Al Sharpton recently held a rally in Freeport.
He really needs to sit his irrelevant ass down somewhere and focus on his son whom seems to be following in his footsteps. At one point, everybody thought after MLK was killed, Jesse was the Moses of Black America but when his true colors were revealed that he nothing more than a con, it was truly disappointing. Especially when he had the kid out of wedlock that surfaced while he was providing “infidelity” counseling to then President Bill Clinton when he had somebody “speaking into the mike” underneath a desk in the Oval Office…