Dehydrating the Hydrant

McPherson Square : 12-04-11

Last Sunday, December 4, I went downtown to McPherson Square to photograph the Occupy DC movement.  While I was down there, there was a stand off between police and demonstrators from the movement. This event was covered heavily in the news so I will not go in depth regarding it. The demonstrators from the movement had built a make shift shelter the night before. This shelter was built without a permit and was therefore declared illegal by the city. Police ordered the demonstrators to leave the structure and gave them a time frame to do so. By the end of the day, the demonstrators, where arrested by police. Some chose to jump off of the structure onto a big air cushion that was put into place by police. Others remained on the structure and were taken off by police using a cherry picker. As this was happening, a member from the movement in the crowd was reading the constitution.  I left before the structure was torn down by police.