WASHINGTON - US Park Police yesterday arrested several Occupy D.C. protesters who refused to dismantle an unfinished wooden structure that was erected in a Washington park overnight.
Protesters began constructing the wooden building Saturday, but yesterday police told them they would need a permit for such a structure and gave them an hour to disassemble it.
When the protesters failed to comply, officers on horseback moved in. Officers removed several protesters from the structure and arrested them, then started breaking down the structure. Police also closed off some nearby streets.
Legba Carrefour, a participant in the Occupy D.C. protest, said about a dozen people had been arrested, not including more than 20 protesters who remained inside and on top of the structure in a standoff with officers that continued last night. Police could not be reached for an official arrest count....
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"Protesters shut down Washington's lobbyist street
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than five dozen protesters upset about what they call corporate greed and the excessive influence of money in politics were arrested Wednesday after shutting down K Street, home to many of Washington's lobbying firms, in a mass demonstration that snarled midday traffic in the nation's capital.
Demonstrators from across the U.S. converged for the Washington march that included participants from Occupy Wall Street encampments as well as other groups, including unions, sympathetic to their message of income inequality.
Organizers said they expected several thousand people in Washington this week for days of activism, almost three months after the movement against economic disparity and perceived corporate greed began with Occupy Wall Street in New York.
Police arrested 62 people by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, said spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump. All but one were for obstructing a public highway, and the other was for a misdemeanor assault on a police officer.
That's where the printed Globe I purchased ended it.
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