Then begins the 15-hour vigil. As the crowd slowly thins to about 3,000, both sides manages to maintain peace. The demonstrators stay overnight and camp at the area around Malacanang. The rallyist refused and plead for more time. The police, losing their patience, fire tear gas cannisters and aimed water cannons at the rallyists, among them priests who said Mass and some nuns.
Troopers then attack the remaining protesters with truncheons.
The demonstrators are forced to disperse. February 25, 1986. The Fall of Malacanang. Militant citizens gather around Malacanang Palace, which is heavily fortified with armed guards, sandbags, machine guns, and even tanks. Barbed wire fences have been around the streets to the Palace since before the elections.