September 24 Event, part 2

Here is part 2 of my photo essay.

The march was awesome. The Radical Cheerleaders made their first cheerleading stop along the route in a grassy area between the marchers and the street. A police officer approached us after we had performed two cheers and told us we were obstructing the pedestrian traffic and people had to move around us (????). When we pointed out to him that we were out of the way and no one had to move around us (which they didn’t) he replied “yes they do.”. So we just moved on.

Even though there was a peacekeeping team leading the march, the march was taken over by a group of anarchists who ventured into the street. This group remained on a corner outside the rally plaza, beating bucket drums and chanting and waving their signs and flags. One person ended up being arrested. The story is that his flag accidentally rubbed against an officer’s shoulders and the officer took the flag and arrested the participant. We ended up loaning his friends some money to help get him bailed out.