A 78-year-old retired Penn professor kept blocking Uber Eats robots — then police arrested her
Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot
Carolyn Marvin, 78, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, has spent months standing in front of Uber Eats delivery robots on Center City sidewalks to protest corporations that displace human delivery workers. On Wednesday, after she refused repeated police orders to step aside during a delivery, officers arrested her for disorderly conduct. She plans to fight the charge on First Amendment grounds and says she will keep blocking the robots.
I would say it's my citizenship. I'm exercising the rights of my citizenship, so I think of it in those terms.