Occupy's tent city will remain at McPherson

To hear some D.C. residents tell it, the McPherson Square Occupy camp should be long gone by now. When the National Park Service announced it would begin enforcing a camping ban at McPherson and Freedom Plaza Monday, media swarmed the camps, hoping to capture the final hours of a tent city that first popped up in October. Instead, on an unseasonably warm Wednesday, McPherson remained packed with tents and tarps. The camping ban has generated no arrests. Instead, protesters were doing yoga on the lawn near a new, massive “Tent of Dreams” draped over the statue of Gen. James McPherson. The U.S. Park Police were nowhere in sight.

It’s a far cry from the large-scale eviction for which residents, businesses and city officials were calling.