Uncovered photo shows USA presidential candidate Bernie Sanders getting arrested

A senior advisor for Sanders confirmed the guy being arrested is indeed the presidential candidate.

This is a clip from an upcoming documentary about that boycott that appears to show Sanders being taken away after the 1963 protest in Chicago.

However, photographer Danny Lyon, who took that photo, contacted the research center and made available more photos from the same sequence, confirming Sanders’ identity, the center said.

The rally, held in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, ended when police stormed the crowd and arrested activists for exercising their right to free speech. Clinton and her supporters have accused Sanders of focusing on economic issues ahead of racial equality, and not having a history of fighting for racial justice.

The Chicago Tribune released the photo from its archives Saturday morning.

The photo is reportedly from the same event, where Sanders was charged with resisting arrest and found guilty. It wasn’t until Sanders himself confirmed the footage is of his arrest that people began to understand just how important this 50-year-old footage is.

Sanders’ fellow state senator, Patrick Leahy, has said his superdelegate vote will go to Clinton at the convention, even if Vermont voters favor Sanders.

In the mid-1960s, protests over segregation in the area raged over mobile classrooms dubbed “Willis Wagons”, named for then-Chicago Schools Superintendent Benjamin Willis.

A famous leader with the Freedom Riders of 1961, the 1963 March on Washington and marches in Selma, Alabama in 1965, Lewis later downplayed his remarks about Sanders, saying he did not mean “to disparage his activism”.