Anti-Wall Street protesters arrested

WASHINGTON - Police arrested 31 protesters at an anti-Wall Street encampment in Washington on Sunday and tore down a wooden shelter that activists illegally erected overnight, prompting a nine-hour confrontation.

Officers on foot and horseback converged on McPherson Square, near the White House and where demonstrators have been living since late September, leading several activists to climb onto the structure and refuse to come down.

After making dozens of arrests on Sunday near the roofless hut some 8 meters tall, US Park Police deployed an armored car and motorized lift to try to remove six hardy demonstrators who had clung on limpet-like to the shelter.