Police Arrest Cindy Sheehan During Anti-War ProtestMon Sep 26, 2005 17:2564.140.158.92
Police Arrest Cindy Sheehan During Anti-War Protest
POSTED: 1:50 pm EDT September 26, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House.
Sheehan and several dozen other protesters sat down on the sidewalk after marching along the pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue. Police warned them three times that they were breaking the law by failing to move along, then began making arrests.
Sheehan, 48, was the first taken into custody. She stood up and was led to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, "The whole world is watching."
Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr City, Iraq, last year. She attracted worldwide attention last month with her 26-day vigil outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.
Sheehan was among several hundred demonstrators who marched around the White House on Monday and then stopped in front and began singing and chanting "Stop the war now!"
The demonstration is part of a broader anti-war effort on Capitol Hill organized by United for Peace and Justice, an umbrella group. Representatives from anti-war groups were meeting Monday with members of Congress to urge them to work to end the war and bring home the troops.
The demonstrators who were arrested cooperated with police.
A police spokesman said they would be charged with demonstrating without a permit, which is a misdemeanor. Sheehan and the others were taken to a processing center to be fingerprinted and photographed. They'll be given a ticket and released.
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Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957 in Los Angeles County, California) is an American anti-Iraq War activist who attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. Due to the fact that her public activism began as a reaction to the death of her son, US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, in Iraq, she is sometimes referred to by the media as the "Peace Mom" or "Mother Sheehan."
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