BLACK VOICES DeRay McKesson Arrested During Baton Rouge Black Lives Matter Protest “I’m under arrest, y’all,” he told viewers on Periscope as police forcefully took him into custody.

 07/10/2016 01:05 am ET

Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson was arrested at a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, late Saturday night as he live-streamed from his Periscope account.

McKesson was participating in a march in the city where officers shot and killed Alton Sterling last week. The video from Periscope, an app that broadcasts live footage, shows McKesson marching along the highway as ordered by officers, who tell him to stay within the “sidewalk.” But the video cuts abruptly at the 4:45 mark, when an officer says, “You’re under arrest.” The feed shakes as the phone moves around, and McKesson says, “I’m under arrest, y’all.” 

According to Wesley Lowery, a reporter at the Washington Post, McKesson was taken to a holding cell along with 33 others.

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