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Hundreds of people danced at the Jefferson Memorial in DC this past saturday in response to the arrest of Adam Kokesh of RT and others the week before in defiance of a no dance law. I especially liked the dancing Thomas Jefferson.Hundreds of people danced at the Jefferson Memorial in DC this past saturday in... more
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The cops brought their motor scooters and horses, and pulled out their blackjacks and tackled people.The cops brought their motor scooters and horses, and pulled out their blackjacks and... more
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Dancing in the Jefferson Memorial last weekend got a group of people arrested, so now they’re planning an even bigger dancing event for Saturday as a point of civil disobedience.
The group claimed to be protesting a recent court ruling that says expressive dancing is considered the same as picketing, marching and public speaking, all of which are banned in certain areas of national memorials, according to a report on myfoxdc.com. They are hoping Saturday’s event will draw a big crowd and are using social media to push the event. More than 2,700 people are said to be attending, according to group’s Facebook page.
The video above shows the arrests last weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUU3yCy3uI&feature=player_embeddedDancing in the Jefferson Memorial last weekend got a group of people arrested, so now... more
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After the arrests of several protesters for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial Saturday was caught on video, the U.S. Park Police has launched an inquiry into the conduct of the arresting officers, according to an NBC4 report.
The U.S. Park Police department has launched an inquiry into the actions of several officers during the arrests of several protesters May 28.
Courtesy of: NBC4
The protesters were reportedly protesting a recent appeals court decision that bans dancing at Washington's memorials. Video shot at the scene and posted to Youtube shows protesters on the ground with park police officers on top of them, and one protester being thrown to the ground by an officer.
A Park Police spokesperson told NBC4 that the chief of the park police has asked the agency's office of professional responsibility to "initiate an inquiry into the activities of these officers."
"It's going to be an all-encompassing inquiry, and so anyone that was involved, that can be identified in the video is going to be part of the inquiry," according to the spokesperson.
A News 4 photographer was also escorted off the grounds of the memorial during the protest, according to the NBC report.
http://wamu.org/news/11/05/30/after_dancing_arrests_park_police_launch_inquiry.phpAfter the arrests of several protesters for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial Saturday... more
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The brown goo oozed from the drill hole like a primordial porridge -- from 60 feet beneath the Jefferson Memorial, it was some of the muck that's under the Mall and part of the stuff that has been slowly swallowing the memorial's sea wall for years.
Centuries of Potomac River sediment and layers of dredged fill, it is the material engineers are drilling through to reach bedrock and anchor the famed memorial's sea wall, for the first time, on a solid foundation.
On Tuesday, crews working in a dewatered section of the Tidal Basin prepared to demolish the old concrete sections of the sea wall as part of the $12.4 million repair project that the National Park Service has been planning since it realized the wall was sinking in 2006.
The work is expected to keep the photogenic north face of the memorial partially obscured by construction equipment through the rest of the tourist season.
In a bit of engineering detective work, experts have discovered that the wall has been slipping away from the memorial's north plaza because the timber pilings that were used to support the wall were probably not long enough to reach bedrock when the memorial was built in the 1930s and '40s.
Studying old photos, engineers were able to determine that the piles were about 65 to 75 feet long, although bedrock starts about 80 feet down, National Park Service civil engineer Steven D. Sims said.
Did the workers cut corners? Did they make a mistake or incorrect assumptions?
"We don't know," Sims said.
The 32,000-ton Jefferson Memorial, on an 18-acre site, is solid, officials said, although it has shifted some since its construction and is monitored for movement.
Dedicated in 1943, the marble and limestone memorial was originally supposed to be in the middle of the Tidal Basin. It wound up along the south shore, and a man-made promontory was added to the man-made shoreline to accommodate construction.
The memorial, which honors the nation's third president and main author of the Declaration of Independence, rests on concentric rings of 634 concrete pilings and pillarlike caissons sunk to bedrock. At least one goes down 138 feet.The brown goo oozed from the drill hole like a primordial porridge -- from 60 feet... more
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