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Updated: 3:30 PM Sep 26, 2005
Sheehan Arrested During White House Protest
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday during a protest outside the White House.
Posted: 12:49 PM Sep 26, 2005 |
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Police arrested anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan Monday during a protest outside the White House.
Sheehan and several dozen other protesters had sat down on the
sidewalk after marching along a pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania
Avenue.
Police warned them three times that they were breaking the law by failing to move along. Then, officers began making arrests.
Sheehan was the first to be taken into custody. She stood up and
was led to a police vehicle.
Protesters nearby chanted, "The whole world is watching."
The demonstrators who were arrested cooperated with police.
A police spokesman says they'll be charged with demonstrating
without a permit, which is a misdemeanor.
Sheehan and the others were taken to a processing center to be fingerprinted and photographed. They'll be given a ticket and released.
One man climbed over the White House fence. He was quickly
subdued by Secret Service agents.
A spokesman for the U.S. Park Police said the protesters would be
charged with demonstrating without a permit, which is a
misdemeanor.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush
is "very much aware" of the protesters and "recognizes that there are differences of opinion" on Iraq.
Sheehan is the Vacaville, Calif. woman who camped out near the President’s Central Texas ranch for much of August, demanding a meeting with Mr. Bush about the death of her 24-year-old son Casey in Iraq.
Casey Sheehan was a 1st Cavalry Division soldier who was killed in 2004 in Iraq.
Sheehan left Central Texas in late August on a cross-country bus trip that culminated Saturday in a protest in Washington, D.C. that attracted an estimated 100,000 people.
A smaller pro-war protest was held Sunday in Washington.
Protesters Monday said they planned to try to deliver a letter to the President with the names of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed in the war.
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