BREAKING: Protestors Turn Violent, Instantly Get Met With Brutal Justice Protesters created havoc across Washington on Inauguration Day, shattering glass storefronts and torching cars but never posing a serious security threat to President Trumps official inaugural ceremonies. Authorities said 217 people were arrested Friday in the protests and demonstrations, which started before dawn and at one point turned into a full-scale riot. Most of the damage was inflicted by protesters associated with the group DistruptJ20 that had vowed for weeks to paralyze the city. Black-clad protestors with their faces covered smashed out the windows of a limousine, then set it afire. They also shattered the class-fronts of a Bank of America, McDonalds and Starbucks, as police officers fired pepper spray to tried to disperse the crowd as it moved from midtown to the Inaugural Parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue. 