Thirty-one people were arrested at the Occupy site in Washington, D.C., on Sunday after police dismantled a structure erected by protesters. Scuffles broke out after officers moved in on the structure while protesters remained on top, refusing to move. A demonstrator criticized the arrests.

Protester: “This should be a non-issue. Five people shouldn’t have been arrested already. What should have happened is they should have said, 'You know, this is larger than we intended when we gave you permission to build the structure.' They should have changed the stipulations on their rules, and then they should have come back in three days. But there’s no reason for this to be happening right now at all.”