<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-jerrys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s</a> founder Ben Cohen was arrested Thursday in front of the Department of Justice (DOJ) during a protest against the detainment of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.</p>
<p>Cohen, a co-founder of the popular ice cream brand, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-arrested-during-dc-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in Washington, D.C. by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for blocking an entrance to the DOJ. Cohen can be seen in photos from the protest sitting in front of one of the entrances to the DOJ before he was led away in handcuffs by law enforcement.</p>
<p>A left-wing activist group called CODEPINK was demonstrating alongside Cohen. A woman can be seen in photos from the protest holding a pink and black sign reading &#8220;Free Assange.&#8221; Clouds of pink smoke from the protesters are also visible.</p>
<div id="attachment_583503" style="width: 416px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-583503" class=" wp-image-583503" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519966042-300x200.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 06: As a pink smoke bomb clouds the air, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s ice cream, refuses to leave an entrance outside the Department of Justice before being arrested July 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cohen was arrested after protesting the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)" width="406" height="270" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519966042-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519966042-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519966042-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519966042.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" /><p id="caption-attachment-583503" class="wp-caption-text">Win McNamee/Getty Images</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_583517" style="width: 416px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-583517" class=" wp-image-583517" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519962833-300x200.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 06: Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s ice cream, refuses to leave an entrance outside the Department of Justice before being arrested July 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cohen was arrested after protesting the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)" width="406" height="270" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519962833-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519962833-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519962833-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519962833.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" /><p id="caption-attachment-583517" class="wp-caption-text">Win McNamee/Getty Images</p></div>
<p>In another photo from the demonstration, Cohen stands next to a large sign reading &#8220;Freedom of the Press&#8221; that resembles the Constitution. The sign has been lit on fire.</p>
<div id="attachment_583529" style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-583529" class=" wp-image-583529" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519971354-300x200.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 06: Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s ice cream, speaks outside the Department of Justice as a copy of the Bill of Rights burns before Cohen was arrested July 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cohen was arrested after protesting the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)" width="404" height="269" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519971354-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519971354-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519971354-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519971354.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px" /><p id="caption-attachment-583529" class="wp-caption-text">Win McNamee/Getty Images</p></div>
<p>Assange, an Australian activist and hacker, became known in the U.S. during the 2016 presidential election, when he released troves of internal documents from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign on his WikiLeaks website.</p>
<p>The leaks appeared to show that the DNC favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination and actively worked to sideline him. After the leaks, DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned, and the DNC apologized to Sanders.</p>
<p>In October, about a month before the 2016 election, Wikileaks started publishing emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in a daily, slow-drip leak.</p>
<p>Those emails <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that CNN commentator Donna Brazile had shared questions for a CNN town hall ahead of time with the Clinton campaign. Brazile resigned from CNN after the leaks. She had previously served as interim DNC chairwoman in 2011, and after Schultz resigned in 2016, she took that post again.</p>
<p>In May, 2019, a U.S. federal grand jury <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-charged-18-count-superseding-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> Assange on 18 counts related to compromising classified information.</p>
<p>Assange is currently in prison in London, where he has been held since April, 2019. The U.S. is attempting to extradite him, but those efforts have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/uk/julian-assange-extradition-wikileaks-us-gbr-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenged</a> in British courts.</p>
<p>Cohen called Assange&#8217;s detainment &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and said the whistleblower is suffering simply for publicizing the truth.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s outrageous. Julian Assange is nonviolent. He is presumed innocent. And yet somehow or other, he has been imprisoned in solitary confinement for four years. That is torture. He revealed the truth, and for that, he is suffering, and that’s we need to do whatever we can to help him and to help preserve democracy, which is based on freedom of the press,&#8221; Cohen <a href="https://www.codepink.org/dojarrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during the protest, according to CODEPINK.</p>
<p>“It seems to me that, right now, unless things change, and unless we change them, freedom of the press is going up in smoke,” Cohen said.</p>
<div id="attachment_583523" style="width: 415px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-583523" class=" wp-image-583523" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519973769-300x200.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 06: Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s ice cream, is arrested outside the Department of Justice July 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cohen was arrested after protesting the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)" width="405" height="270" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519973769-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519973769-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519973769-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519973769.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px" /><p id="caption-attachment-583523" class="wp-caption-text">Win McNamee/Getty Images</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_583525" style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-583525" class=" wp-image-583525" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519943632-300x200.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 06: Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s ice cream, is arrested outside the Department of Justice July 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cohen was arrested after protesting the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)" width="404" height="269" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519943632-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519943632-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519943632-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1519943632.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px" /><p id="caption-attachment-583525" class="wp-caption-text">Win McNamee/Getty Images</p></div>
<p>Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s has garnered a reputation for being progressive in its messaging.</p>
<p>On July 4, the Vermont-based ice cream company <a href="https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1676214289353572352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1676214289353572352%7Ctwgr%5Ee4878efc0fade3c3ddea341a914a2d6723b32307%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxbusiness.com%2Fmarkets%2Fben-jerrys-independence-day-message-calls-stolen-indigenous-land-returned-native-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> that the U.S. &#8220;exists on stolen Indigenous land&#8221; and called on Americans to &#8220;commit to returning it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cohen was previously <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-arrested-at-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in 2018 while protesting the noise from Vermont National Guard F-35 fighters.</p>

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