The protesters’ shouts of “Free, free Palestine!” and “We demand liberation!” were intermingled with the horns of commuters stuck in traffic as demonstrators stood in the middle of intersections.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department reported arresting eight protesters in connection with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding at the intersection of 23rd Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
U.S. Capitol Police, responsible for the grounds at the Capitol, reported arresting 11 persons in connection with the same offenses. Three also face charges of resisting arrest, police said.
During their demonstration, protesters blocked the street in front of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum at 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl. SW.
[The museum has nothing to do with Gaza or the West Bank. The activists targeted it because they’re targeting Jews. Full stop. — Ed]
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