DC police reporting not a single arrest all day..

[DCBob]

That is amazing with a crowd of that size.

[KitchenWitch]

1. That is unfathomable.

And way cool.

[DCBob]

6. A real peacefest!

Gotta love it.

[Indiana_Dem]

2. That's just strange. Not even a protestor or anything?Pickpockets? nt

[DCBob]

4. Apparentlh not.. This was just reported on MSNBC...

but the night is still young and the bars are open very late. Hopefully it stays cool and calm.

[napi21]

3. I mentioned that to my husband earlier today. Thousands of people

have been in DC since Friday, and more and more each day, and I haven't seen even ONE protest! No problems of any kind! I'm THRILLED, but amazed! So much for the RW saying the lefties are always trouble makers, huh?

[DCBob]

5. Yeah. The protests were few and far between...

Peacemongers everywhere!

[napi21]

10. Were there ANY? I'm sure the media would have jumped at the chance

to show anything like that, and I didn't see or hear of any. The only negative I heard anywhere was a note on the radio that last Thur. I think, there was some get together, lunch or something, and everything was great inside, but outside, there were a group of nuts screaming that "you're all baby killers and all going to hell." I only heard that report once and it was on an Oregon station that I listen to all the time.

I honestly think the pubs who would have been protesting are so shamed and dispondent they didn't even have the ambition to fight anymore. I'm right!

[DCBob]

11. There were a few protesters but nothing like previous inaugurations...

The NYTimes had an article about it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/21web-protests.html?_r=1&hp

[Posteritatis]

7. How often can you say that about *any* city of 600,000? Wow (nt)

[FrenchieCat]

8. Freepers must have been soooo disappointed!

So many Black folks and so many handcuffs ready and willing.

[DCBob]

9. I am sure they were hoping for a riot....

Morons.

[Lilyeye]

15. My friend told me her father was making racist jokes about this.

So glad those fuckers get to look stupid once again.

[sohndrsmith]

12. Wow THANK YOU for posting this... I was wondering about this earlier

and how or what (if anything) might end up in the news. I was mostly worried about people getting frostbite, though, as far as police incidents were concerned. I like to think that there was no mischief at any time or any location throughout this whole event, and I've yet to hear something to the contrary...

Thanks for posting - I really was curious and hoped for this result.

Even if things did happen but were so minor or infrequent that they just didn't get reported, I'm still not surprised at the lack of hostility or crime or conflict, because people really seemed just so purely joyous and connected. We were much more of a team today... all of us. At least that's the sense I got.

Even if some (or most) of this sense of good will fades over time, we made collective, positive progress because of this day, I think. We gained something truly valuable as a whole and individually, and that's just so... wonderful.

Reality will sober us up some, though, as it always does, but we will never lose the gift of this day that is now in our hearts - even if we forget from time to time, we won't lose it - unless we do so deliberately, but that would just be dumb. I don't think there will be many takers for that.

What a good, healing day.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. It's the positive vibe and good will of the Obama crowd. Seriously.

This is also why there were no trampling deaths etc., discussed in my description of my day down on the mall.

[jgraz]

14. Shit. I was hoping we'd at least have one or two

[krispos42]

16. There were 4 million people on The Mall...

more than the entire population of the US in 1790... and not one arrest???


Must have been too busy singing to be committing crimes!


Na na na na, hey hey hey, good-bye!!!

[Thrill]

17. Obama brings out the best in all of us

[JVS]

18. I don't mean to bring down the good vibes here, but a police were probably so busy with crowd...

direction and security checks, that they were stretched too thin to start arresting people. If 4 million people roll into a town they could likely do whatever they want. They could possibly even topple the government.

[WolverineDG]

24. the rowdiest thing I saw was people running on top of the porta potties

it was a well-behaved, at times boisterous, crowd, all out to have a great time. Makes it a lot easier on the cops if the crowd is in a good mood to begin with.

dg

[ColbertWatcher]

19. No arrests? Amazing. n/t

[dmr]

20. Ah ... there's a new sheriff in town, the evil one flew away, headin' down Texas way, I hear.

:)

I wondered how the police would handle today, so this is very good news.

I'm just sorry there were problems with a lot of people not getting in to see it all. Someone posted over at Firedoglake that generators weren't working, which meant they couldn't handle the security screening process, causing a very large log-jam of frustrated, cold, fatigued, and angry well-wishers.

[pa28]

21. Amazing.

When you have an actual elected President taking the oath of office I guess nobody feels the need to bring ski masks or pitchforks.

I have to admit today just turned me inside-out. All the pain of the last 8 years just came up for review at one time and maybe the coping part started. For all those lucky enough to be there today maybe they were feeling the same thing.

[Monk06]

22. I guess Kristinn decided to behave himself for a change.

[treestar]

23. Now that's amazing.

Two million people and nobody did anything stupid? Awesome!!!!!

[kwassa]

25. well, whoever was running the tickets gates sure screwed up

Thousands of people who had valid tickets never got in and missed the ceremony.

[ecstatic]

26. kick! Heard the news today. Amazing how peaceful

we are :)