Thirty-two demonstrators, including Princeton professor Cornel West, were purposefully arrested yesterday in Harlem at an Occupy Wall Street-related protest against the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the 28th Precinct at West 123rd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard and linked arms blocking the entrance. "You have to fight arbitrary police power," said West, who was also arrested this week at a protest in D.C. Watch below: more ›

Cornel West and more than a dozen other Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested today in Harlem during a civil disobedience protest against the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy. The protest took place outside the 28th Precinct at West 123rd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, as a substantial group of protesters led by West chanted, "Stop & frisk don't stop the crime. Stop & frisk IS the crime." more ›

Dr. Cornel West has become the third celebrity in the past 24 hours to visit the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park. Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon both paid their respects to the demonstrators earlier today and last night. West, a professor at Princeton, recently said on MSNBC, "The top 10 percent got 100 percent of income growth. That's pathological. You can't sustain a democracy when you have that kind of wealth inequality." more ›