Eight demonstrators were arrested on Capitol Hill Thursday morning, marking the second time in a week that protests have escalated beyond orderly gatherings around the city.
Chants of "End these wars!" were heard as protesters were taken into custody outside of a hearing room in the Rayburn House Office Building Thursday. U.S. Capitol Police charged the eight with disrupting Congress. One demonstrator also was charged with simple assault.
CNN reported that the arrests happened during opening statements of a House Armed Services Committee hearing, with some of the protesters coming from the anti-war group Code Pink.
The arrests come two days after the first arrests in the ongoing Occupy DC movement that's grown in the city over the past couple of weeks. Six "occupiers" were cuffed and escorted out of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday while trying to unfurl a banner that read "Tax the Rich."
