Anti-poverty protesters arrested for Statehouse sit-in

Members of the Vermont Poor People’s Campaign staging a sit-in at the Statehouse on Monday. Photo supplied
Fourteen members of an anti-poverty campaign were arrested in Vermont’s Statehouse Monday evening after conducting an hours-long sit-in and refusing to leave the capitol building when it closed.
Police charged the nonviolent protesters with misdemeanor counts of unlawful trespass at about 7:00 p.m., nearly three hours after the Statehouse shut its doors to the public, according