At least 19 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Thursday for disrupting traffic in the nation’s capital as they demanded a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
The pro-Palestinian protesters snarled traffic by blocking five major roads in Washington during morning rush hour, including outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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.
The 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….
