Police directed traffic away from the intersection and after issuing warnings, started arresting protesters who were illegally blocking the intersection.
On Thursday, protesters wearing green bandannas gathered shortly before noon at Second Street and East Capitol NE before marching — behind a large banner that said “We won’t back down” — a few blocks over to their sit-in site at First Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
“We have already given our third and final warning. We are now making arrests for anyone who is illegally blocking the intersection,” U.S. Capitol PoliceKatelyn Leonard, 39, was out in front of the Supreme Court already with a sign declaring “Keep your ‘God’ out of my uterus” when she decided to join the march. Leonard, a fifth-grade teacher for D.C. Public Schools, said she was there for her female students who will enter a world with less rights than their male classmates.
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