Dem. Now! Reverend Yearwood on to explain what happened to him:

[babylonsister]

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"Democracy While Black" - Rev. Lennox Yearwood Arrested, Charged with Assault While Entering Petraeus Hearing

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The Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, was tackled by six Capitol police officers after he tried to enter the Petraeus hearing on Monday. Rev. Yearwood was injured in the incident taken to hospital. He was later charged him with felony assault of a police officer. President Bush is expected to announce tonight plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq back down to 130,000 by next July.

In a meeting with top Democratic leaders, the president said he was trying to find common ground on Iraq by planning to "start doing some redeployment."

But at the meeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly interjected, "No you're not, Mr. President. You're just going back to the pre-surge level."

President Bush will be outlining his plans in a nationally televised address to the nation at 9 p.m. His speech comes just three days after General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker came before Congress to recommend the continuation of the war for the indefinite future.

On Monday, at least 10 protesters were arrested during General David Petraeus' hearing. Most were arrested for disrupting the Congressional hearing but at least one activist was arrested for simply trying to watch the proceedings.

Video posted on YouTube shows the Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus being tackled by six Capitol police officers after he tried to enter the hearing.

* Rev. Lennox Yearwood being tackled by Capitol police.

Rev. Yearwood was injured in the incident and was taken to the hospital. The capitol police charged him with felony assault of a police officer.

The Rev. Lennox Yearwood is the founder of the Hip Hop Caucus. He is among the organizers of this Saturday's anti-war march in Washington. He joins us in Washington D.C.

* Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus. He is a minister and community activist. He is one of the organizers of Saturday's anti-war march in Washington.

[babylonsister]

1. Ligaments were torn in his ankle, not broken. Good interview. nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. Shit.

He'll wish he had broken it -- ligaments are an injury that can take forever to heal, and you can have longterm problems from. (Been there, done that a few times.)

"Felony assault" of an officer -- what a load of crap. :eyes: I hope he sues their asses and wins big.

[bdamomma]

2. Rev. Yearwood, was manhandled and treated terribly

those policeman should be suspended or even terminated. There was no need for that aggressive behaviour on him, law enforcement is getting to heavy handed and treat everyone like they are criminals, what just to protect this idiot we have in the WH.

[babylonsister]

3. "If they can beat on me in the halls of Congress, they will beat on you next."