On June 6, at 6 am police officer Mr. Haynes came up to Ms.
Concepcion Picciotto, who has been doing a full time protest with signs for
honesty and justice in front of the White House for three years. Ms. Picciotto
had covered herself with a piece of cardboard and the officer asked her if she
was naked under that. She said, "Of course not."
Then the policeperson went over to another protester named
Robert and started kicking him. Thomas, a third protester, picked up his camera
to take a picture of this. This completely infuriated the police offices, who
grabbed the camera from Thomas and put his arm around Thomas's neck and started
punching him in the face. Ms. Picciotto ran to call her lawyer, but was picked
up by police and charged on four counts: camping, assaulting an officer,
indecent exposure and assisting an assault. She claims that the charges are a
farce. All of the signs were smashed to pieces.