Thousands of women marched through Washington, D.C., demonstrating against the government’s migrant detention policy and cases of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The United States Capitol Police said approximately 575 protesters were charged with “unlawfully demonstrating.”
Police said they were being processed on the scene and then released.
Footage from the demonstration shows women chanting, “We care,” in reference to a controversial jacket first lady Melania Trump wore during a trip to a migrant detention center in Texas.
Many also carried banners with the hashtag #FamiliesBelongTogether.
Mothers, grandmother, daughters are all risking arrest demanding children be reunited with their parents after Trump's zero tolerance policy. #WomenDisobey #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/rPs8Q6mPGC
— Voto Latino (@votolatino) June 28, 2018
The women marched 2 miles, past the Trump International Hotel to the Department of Justice, where many sat and blocked access to the building.
Hundreds of protesters, including Sarandon, moved to the Hart Senate Office Building.
Credit: Jacquelyn Martin
Credit: Jacquelyn Martin
Some of them were wrapped in silver cellophane blankets, to symbolize the blankets given to children in migrant detention facilities.
Over 2,000 children woke up at our southern border today terrified & desperate for their parents. We must keep fighting to ensure the Trump admin reunites them. Thank you @familiesbelong @womensmarch for coming to the Senate to demand it. This IS what democracy looks like! pic.twitter.com/s9LUrOlnRE
— Senator Cortez Masto (@SenCortezMasto) June 29, 2018
Sarandon, who won an Oscar for “Dead Man Walking” in 1996, announced her arrest on Twitter.
Arrested. Stay strong. Keep fighting. #WomenDisobey
— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) June 28, 2018
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, tweeted that she had also been arrested.
I was just arrested with 500+ women and @WomensMarch to say @RealDonaldTrump’s cruel zero-tolerance policy will not continue. Not in our country. Not in our name.
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 28, 2018
June 30 we’re putting ourselves in the street again.
Join us. https://t.co/DdRHeFtTTr pic.twitter.com/P9uK0Z1Zay
More protests are scheduled for Saturday.
ACTION ALERT TOMORROW: We Need YOU to March on Saturday: Read a personal story about #WhyWeMarch! https://t.co/mdILnQi1b6 #AbolishICE #DecriminalizeOurCommunities #FreeOurFuture
— Women's March MN (@WomensMarchMN) June 29, 2018
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