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1600 arrested sanfransisco { March 22 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,919544,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,919544,00.html Protest 'anarchy' in San Francisco More than 1,600 people have been arrested in San Francisco while taking part in protests against the war Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Saturday March 22, 2003 The Guardian More than 1,600 people have been arrested in San Francisco while taking part in protests against the war as demonstrations continued throughout the US. There were mainly peaceful protests in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas. By far the biggest was in San Francisco, the traditional home of war protest, where demonstrations led to what police called described as "absolute anarchy". They began early on Thursday morning with blocked streets in the financial district and continued into the night. About 800 people were kept in jail overnight. Most will be charged with minor offences but the police said that 20 would be charged with felonies connected with assaults. "This is the largest number of arrests we've made in one day and the largest demonstration in terms of disruption that I've seen," said the assistant police chief, Alex Fagan. "We saw a ratcheting-up from legal protest to absolute anarchy." Sergeant Rene Laprevotte told the San Francisco Chronicle: "After 16 hours of fighting communists and anarchists, a Red Bull can help us go another 16 hours. We're here as long as they are." "The actions will continue as long as the bombs are dropping," said Leda Dederich, one of the organisers of Direct Action to Stop the War. "Yesterday was just the beginning of a rolling campaign." In Berkeley 120 people were arrested as they tried to take over a campus administration building. About 2,000 protested in San Diego, a main base for the shipment of troops. Protesters in Boston, Atlanta and Chicago closed streets and in Philadelphia about 100 were arrested. Protesters in Times Square, New York, lay down in the street and 21 were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. In Los Angeles 12 people were arrested near the Federal Building in Westwood. The LAPD police chief, William Bratton, said the conduct of an officer caught by a news channel striking women demonstrators with his truncheon on Wednesday would be investigated. Forty people were arrested, 10 of them secondary school students. One of the women struck, Anna Christiansen, 58, lodged a complaint yesterday. More protests are planned to disrupt the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood tomorrow.

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