Five people were arrested at the state Capitol on Monday after several protesters with the Arkansas Poor People’s Campaign refused to leave a tunnel area in front of the building.
State Capitol Police Chief Darrell Hedden said the protesters were not allowed into the building, which is otherwise open to the public, after he said they threatened to “shut it down” during a rally earlier in the day on the Capitol steps.
The protesters then gathered outside the locked east entrance doors in a tunnel used by the governor and other public officials, chanting “let us in.”
After Hedden asked the protesters several times to move back to the Capitol steps, a small group declined to do so, and five were arrested.
Read Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
