George Clooney was Jovial During Arrest in D.C. [PHOTOS]
George Clooney was arrested in Washington D.C. on Friday while protesting peacefully with a group of others about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
He was arrested along with his father Nick Clooney, outside the Sudanese embassy in D.C. Protesters said Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir's is blocking food and humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of people in the country.
Police reportedly warned protesters to leave the embassy lawn or face arrest. After the third warning they made arrests.
Clooney "seemed jovial and at ease throughout the arrest," reported the Washington Post.
"We need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world," Clooney told people gathered at the protest.
Police also arrested actor Dick Gregory, Congressman Jim Moran, the President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Ben Jealous and Martin Luther King III, reports the Associated Press.
Clooney's arrest comes two days after he testified before U.S. Senators on the crisis in Sudan and South Sudan. Later that day the actor attended President Barack Obama's state dinner honoring British Prime Minister David Cameron. He also met with Obama the following day at the White House to talk about the Sudanese crisis.
