Nearly 1,000 protesters took to the streets in downtown Washington on Thursday in an energized but amicable contrast to similar anti-Wall Street demonstrations that began last month in New York City, where hundreds of arrests have been made. The event, Stop the Machine, began at noon at noon with speeches and music in Freedom Plaza, near the White House. Just before 3 p.m. a march began up 15th Street, by the White House to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters. U.S. Park Police and the city’s Metropolitan Police Department closed off roads and escorted the march, but there were no SWAT teams and German shepherds that have marked other larger Washington protests.

Although police in New York City arrested roughly 80 more people in protests there on Thursday, it was — literally — a much different picture in D.C.’s Lafayette Square as a protester wearing a Robin Hood cap posed for a photo with a Park Police officer.