SIOUX FALLS POLICE SAY ARRESTS WERE MADE AFTER OFFICERS CLASHED WITH ABORTION RIGHTS PROTESTERS WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
POLICE CHIEF JON THUM SAYS THE PROTEST WAS AN “UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY.”
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THE MARCH, WHICH HAD STARTED WITH AROUND 100 OR SO PEOPLE, QUICKLY GREW INTO GREATER NUMBERS.
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THE MARCH FROM LYON PARK DOWN PHILLIPS AVENUE THEN BECAME AN ISSUE WHEN THE PROTEST INTERFERED WITH THE TRAFFIC FLOW THROUGH THAT PART OF THE CITY:
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SOME OF THE PROTESTORS THEN BEGAN INTERFERING WITH POLICE EFFORTS:
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OFFICERS THEN DEPLOYED SMOKE INTO THE LARGE CROWD:
SFALLS3 OC……WANTED TO STAY. :21
TWO TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS WERE REPORTED DURING THE MARCH WITH INJURIES BELIEVED TO BE MINOR.
AN UNDISCLOSED NUMBER OF PROTESTERS WERE ARRESTED AND COULD FACE A “VIOLATION TO DISPERSE” CHARGE ALONG WITH OTHER MISDEMEANORS.
Jerry Oster contributed to this story
