Capitol Hill arrests in pro-democracy protest hit 1,240.

[elleng]

'Capitol Police said Monday that it has arrested more than 1,000 people demonstrating for reforms to how Americans vote and campaign in elections.

Police say 1,240 people have been arrested in the last seven days. That includes approximately 300 people on Monday alone on the Capitol's east front steps that lead to the Rotunda.

Protest organizers pegged a higher estimate of at least 1,300 arrests.

Most of the arrested protesters have been charged with unlawful crowding and obstruction.'>>>

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/276689-capitol-police-arrest-more-than-1000-protesters

[NV Whino]

1. Where are they putting them all?

People arrested during the protests include actress Rosario Dawson, multiple top staffers for the liberal Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Lawrence Lessig, a campaign finance reform advocate and Harvard professor who briefly ran for president in this cycle.

Also among those arrested on Monday were the two founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, as well as top officials with the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the AFL-CIO and NAACP.

🍧🍨🍦 Free ice cream for all! I see a new flavor in the works.

[Volaris]

2. That's the first point.

The second is that (if they were smart) every single ONE of them would demand a jury trial and so choke the muny judicial system for so long that every person who has to touch this looks at and says

Yeah, let's just go ahead and change the system already so we don't have to keep being bothered with this.

If pot-smokers all did the same thing with their minor possession and paraphernalia misdemeanor court cases it would be re-scheduled in less than 60 days. ESPECIALLY if it were announced nationally and everyone who got called for jury duty knew what the game was and started returning not guilty verdicts.
BILLIONS of local dollars would start to get wasted and judges, lawyers, cops, court clerks...EVERYONE would roll their eyes and say 'fine, we get it now this is stupid lets change the damned Law.

If protest doesn't block traffic your not doing it correctly.=)