Mayor, D.C. Council chairman arrested in Capitol protest

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was arrested Monday evening on unlawful assembly charges, along with D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and about 40 others protesting federal control of the city’s spending and pushing for voting rights in Congress.

About 200 people came out to protest Monday evening, three days after President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, brokered a deal to keep the federal budget running that also banned the District from spending local taxpayer dollars on abortions.