Intro: "A handful of dancers got cuffed on Saturday for doing what they say the Founding Fathers would have wanted them to do - expressive dancing in National Parks. A court recently ruled that expressive dancing was in a category with picketing, speech making, and marching - a banned activity at national memorials."
Dancers are arrrested for doing expressive dancing at the Jefferson Memorial, 05/28/11. (photo: MSNBC)
Park Police Slam Dancers at Jefferson Memorial
29 May 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUU3yCy3uI
NBC Washington reports:
handful of dancers got cuffed on Saturday for doing what they say the Founding Fathers would have wanted them to do - expressive dancing in National Parks.
A court recently ruled that expressive dancing was in a category with picketing, speechmaking, and marching - a banned activity at national memorials.
A small group came out on Saturday to protest the ruling, by dancing together inside the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial.
But after a few minutes, their moves got busted by Park Police.
Five were arrested, while listening to earphones and moving rythymically in the shadow of Thomas Jefferson.
"The founders understood that the only thing that was going to make the American experiment succeed was the people standing up for these rights," Jared Denman, a demonstrator, told NBC Washington.
The memorial was shut down while demonstrators got arrested.
Some visiting from out of town were less than impressed with the protesters' interprative moves. "I think its ridiculous," said Edward Kelly of Richmond. "We just traveled up the steps and we've been waiting for 15 minutes."
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