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By Bill Clark
Posted December 11, 2023 at 5:18pm

D.C. firefighters set up a ladder to remove a pro-Palestinian protester sitting on the Mountains and Clouds sculpture in the Hart Senate Office Building on Monday. It is illegal to demonstrate inside congressional buildings and the protester was among 49 people arrested.

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