More than five dozen protesters upset about what they call corporate greed and the excessive influence of money in politics were arrested today after shutting down K Street in Washington. The mass demonstration snarled mid-day traffic in the nation's capital. The arrests came as demonstrators from across the country converged on K Street for a march that included participants from Occupy Wall Street encampments as well as other groups, including unions, sympathetic to their message.
Police had made 62 arrests by 5:30pm, said spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump. Sixty-one of the arrests were for obstructing a public highway and an additional arrest was made for a misdemeanor assault on a police officer. About three dozen protesters were carried into police vans after lying down in the middle of a busy intersection and ignoring repeated orders to move. More protests are expected later this week, including a vigil for the jobless tomorrow. (More Washington, DC stories.)
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