Onlookers were not always sympathetic. Salesman Joseph Abramson of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, was unhappy with the blockage of traffic. Whatever it takes' So far, convention-related protests that began Saturday have lacked the confrontations of protests at recent international meetings in Seattle and Washington, D.C., that resulted in hundreds of arrests and millions in property damage. Earlier Monday, Philadelphia police made the first arrests in three days of peaceful street demonstrations. Several groups created minor disturbances to protest the Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American officers in combat techniques.
Critics blame the school for human rights abuses in Central America.
Eight people were arrested after blocking Market Street, a busy east-west artery in central Philadelphia during morning rush hour. The protesters' limp bodies, some covered in fake blood, were dragged by police onto a bus. If that means sitting in jail for a couple of days, then that is just what it means. CNN National Correspondent Bruce Morton and The Associated Press contributed to this report.