A day after meeting with President Obama privately in the Oval Office to relate his firsthand account of the dire humanitarian crisis going on in South Sudan, the Hollywod actor took his activism to a whole 'nother level by getting arrested this morning outside the Sudanese embassy.
"We're here to ask two very important questions," Clooney told a throng of reporters. "We need immedate humanitarian aid into Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and...the second thing we ask is for the government in Khartoum to stop killing their own citizens...stop raping them and stop killing them."
U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Max Milien confirmed, saying Clooney was taken into custody for "disorderly crossing of a police line."
He was transported to the 2nd district of the Washington, D.C. police department and will be booked on a misdemeanor. No word if bail has been set or when he'll be getting out.
Arrested along with Clooney were his father, journalist Nick Clooney, as well as Martin Luther King III, NAACP President Ben Jealous and several congressmen.
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