| The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on the Mall was abruptly closed Saturday afternoon after a "large group of protesters" tried to push past security guards and enter the museum, Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas said.
At least one demonstrator was pepper-sprayed by a museum guard in the confrontation, St. Thomas said. Several witnesses said that more than a dozen people were affected by the spray. The museum was closed at about 3:15 p.m., St. Thomas said. Some of the protesters were affiliated with the Occupy DC protest that sprung up at McPherson Square last week as an offshoot of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, said Cody Steele, an American University senior who participated in the march to the museum. |
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