Some 60 Demonstrators Arrested Outside US Capitol
Date: 23-Oct-07
Country: US
"People are being arrested out here because you (Congress) are not doing your job," antiwar activist Ann Wright shouted into a bullhorn.
Demonstrators were arrested on charges of unlawful assembly and blocking entrances to the Capitol, which was ringed by members of the US Capitol Police.
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a police spokeswoman, said, "We've had about 60 arrests." She said she had received no reports of violence.
About half a dozen demonstrators dressed in fluffy white outfits held a banner reading, "Polar bears for solutions to war and global warming."
