<span class=”BodyCopy”>Thirty-one Occupy DC protesters <a href=”https://wexwpdev.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/dc/2011/12/protestors-arrested-mcpherson-square/1973811″>were arrested Sunday</a> during a day-long standoff with police that began after Occupiers erected a plywood shelter in McPherson Square and then refused to leave when police ordered them to vacate.</span> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Built overnight, the wooden shelter on the south side of McPherson Square was designed to host Occupy DC’s general assembly meetings during the winter months. But a building inspector brought in by the U.S. Park Police said the building was unsafe and declared it unlawful for anyone to enter.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>That didn’t deter 16 protesters who remained in the structure, some of whom perched on the building’s unfinished roof and refused to leave. Park Police officers eventually used a basket crane to remove three remaining protesters from the roof, tying ropes around their waists and lifting them bodily off the structure. One protester urinated on the structure before police carried him off the roof. </span></p> <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1″/><title>OccupyDCArchiveTemplate
