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Andy Samberg says he and others who appear on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” are in awe of fellow cast member Terry Crews after the ex-football player’s testimony to U.S. senators earlier this week about sexual assault
Support for the actor hasn’t been universal. Rapper 50 Cent mocked Crews’ testimony and was excoriated on social media.
Crews testified Tuesday in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee about being groped at a party by a Hollywood agent he is now suing.
“We have a cast text chain and we were all texting him how incredible it was,” Samberg said of Crews’ testimony at a media appearance Thursday promoting his new film, “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.”
Susan Sarandon arrested at DC immigration rally
Susan Sarandon was among hundreds of people arrested in Washington, D.C., on Thursday during a protest, her representative has confirmed. “I was moved by the passionate, committed response to ending the separation of families seeking asylum and the incarceration of children,” the actress, 71, said in a statement. “This is a moral, not political question and I’m proud to have stood with the hundreds of women to say that we do not accept this. Unite families and abolish ICE.”
Thousands of women marched through the capital and occupied a Senate office building in a “mass civil disobedience” act to protest the administration’s immigration policy.
According to the U.S. Capitol Police, about 575 people were charged with “unlawfully demonstrating.”