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Police arrest US presidential candidate Jill Stein at debate site

Police arrest US presidential candidate Jill Stein at debate site

Published: 17 October, 2012, 02:22 Edited: 17 October, 2012, 03:27

Police arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of tonights presidential debate at the Hofstra University. Jill Stein, Cheri Honkala arrested, call tonight's #debate a "mockumentary", said a tweet posted on her account. The presidential candidate and her vice-presidential nominee were arrested by local police when they tried to enter the grounds of Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York, Stein's campaign website says. The women are currently still in police custody. A video posted on YouTube shows police officers ushering Stein and Honkala away after they apparently tried to stage a sit-in. The arrest comes after an announcement by the Green Party that the candidates will take Occupy the Commission on Presidential Debates action on the night of the debate. Stein and Honkala will walk from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum at 2 PM to the debate perimeter at Hofstra, where they will then attempt to walk through security checkpoints and reach the debate hall, read the release. This is a great day for democracy, Stein told The Philadelphia Weekly by phone as she headed to the debate site. Its a great day for the politics of courage. She said theyre attempting their stunt because fighting the exclusion of this debate is a push-back against the stranglehold of the economic elite and especially of this forum. The candidates claim that the Commission on Presidential Debates is an unfair entity formed by Democratic and Republican leaders designed to exclude any opposition.

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Police arrest US presidential candidate Jill Stein at debate site RT

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