Police converge on Occupy site in DC, inspect site
AP
A U.S. Park Police officer removes a wooden structure from an Occupy DC protestor's tent at McPherson Square in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Park Police arrived before dawn to enforce a no camping law at the square near the White House, which demonstrators have occupied since last October, and enjoyed special First Amendment protections by virtue of the square's designation as park service property. The regulations permit protesters to remain onsite at all hours with tents, but bars them from camping or laying down bedding material.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A U.S. Park Police officer removes a wooden structure from an Occupy DC protestor's tent at McPherson Square in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Park Police arrived before dawn to enforce a no camping law at the square near the White House, which demonstrators have occupied since last October, and enjoyed special First Amendment protections by virtue of the square's designation as park service property. The regulations permit protesters to remain onsite at all hours with tents, but bars them from camping or laying down bedding material.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
RETRANSMITTED FOR ALTERNATE CROP AND IMPROVED TONING - A U.S. Park Police officer removes a wooden structure from a tent at McPherson Square park in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Park Police entered the square before dawn to enforce a no camping law on Occupy DC protestors in Washington, one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. McPherson Square is a federal park near the White House, where demonstrators have enjoyed special First Amendment protections by virtue of the square's designation as park service property. The regulations permit protesters to remain onsite at all hours with tents, but bars them from camping or laying down bedding material. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
RETRANSMITTED FOR ALTERNATE CROP AND IMPROVED TONING - Occupy DC protestors confront U.S. Park Police in McPherson Square before dawn as police enforce a no camping law on Occupy DC protestors in Washington, one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. McPherson Square is a federal park near the White House, where demonstrators have enjoyed special First Amendment protections by virtue of the square's designation as park service property. The regulations permit protesters to remain onsite at all hours with tents, but bars them from camping or laying down bedding material. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Occupy DC protestors show their opposition as U.S. Park Police enforce a no camping law at McPherson Square near the White House in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Demonstrators, who have occupied the square since last October, have enjoyed special First Amendment protections by virtue of the square's designation as park service property. The regulations permit protesters to remain onsite at all hours with tents, but bars them from camping or laying down bedding material. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A U.S. Park Police officer in a cherry-picker uses a tree trimming tool to remove a mask of 17th century English revolutionary Guy Fawkes from the statue of Union Gen. James McPherson in McPherson Square near the White House in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Police arrived before dawn to enforce a no camping law at one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, a federal park where demonstrators have enjoyed special First Amendment protections by virtue of the square's designation as park service property. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers have converged on one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the U.S. and are inspecting tents there.
The officers arrived before dawn Saturday at McPherson Square, just blocks from the White House, on horseback and in riot gear. There were no clashes between police and protesters, though a Park Police spokesman says four people were arrested for disobeying a lawful order.
Police say they want to make sure protesters are complying with National Park Service regulations that allow demonstrations at the site but prohibit camping. Police are inspecting tents, and some officials are wearing yellow biohazard suits to avoid exposure to any communicable diseases.
Some demonstrators say the police are effectively evicting them by forcing them to remove any bedding material from their tents.
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