By James
Oliphant Los Angeles times.
October
16, 2011, 7:07 p.m.
Liberal
professor Cornel West was one of 19 people arrested on the steps of the U.S.
Supreme Court in Washington on Sunday, according to the Associated Press, as part of the Occupy
Wall Street movement.
West,
a former Harvard
University professor now teaching at Princeton
University, took part Sunday in the
dedication of the monument to the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., an event that was delayed
from August because of Hurricane
Irene. He then, according to media reports, moved on
to a protest at the home of the high court.
A
well-known commentator on civil rights issues, West recently got into a TV spat
with presidential candidate Herman
Cain, telling Cain to "get off the symbolic
crack pipe."
In
Washington, the anti-corporate protest movement is known as Occupy D.C.
