Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells still had a #41 tag around his wrist when he convened a D.C. Council meeting Tuesday morning. It marked him as the last protester to be processed by U.S. Capitol Police after a nine-hour saga that started with 41 people — including Mayor Vince Gray and six council members — getting arrested after refusing to leave Constitution Avenue on Monday evening in protest against federal control of the city’s budget.
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