Authorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the U.S. 
 
 Workers in protective gear remove tents, camping gear and debris left by Occupy DC protesters in McPherson Square, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Washington.  
 
 Photo by Glyn Lowe in which U.S. Park Police made an exhaustive sweep of the park in enforcing the National Park Service's ban on camping there. At dawn Saturday U.S. Park Police began their enforcement... (Associated Press) 
 
 Workers in protective gear remove tents, camping gear and debris left by Occupy DC protesters in McPherson Square, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Washington. Dozens of Park Police officers in riot gear and NPS workers in hazardous-materials suits spent Saturday combing through the square to determine which of the hundreds of tents that have appeared there over the past four months were in compliance with park regulations. On Sunday morning, Sgt. David Schlosser, the Park Police spokesman, said 11 people were arrested at McPherson Square—four for not obeying police orders, two for crossing police lines, one for simple assault, three for assaulting a police officer and one for assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. After seeing so many of their tents removed earlier in the day, however, the demonstrators were not buying it, even when a Park Police captain repeated Schlosser's assurance. In that last instance, a demonstrator, after the crowd had been pushed out on to K Street, lobbed a brick at an officer's face. The protester who flung the brick was promptly tackled to the ground and arrested, the officer was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for injuries.
– A festive Occupy DC camp only days ago is now a barren mud field where cops are picking through the last remaining tents, the AP reports. Officers arrived at McPherson Square near the White House yesterday to enforce a no-camping law, DCist reports, and protesters complied as tents containing equipment or personal artifacts were removed. But when officers approached Occupy DC's library, protesters locked arms and faced off in an aggressive scrum with police. By day's end, eleven protesters were arrested and one officer was hospitalized after an Occupier threw a brick in his face. One protester seemed to be unconscious when handcuffed by police and carted away. Many Occupiers appeared to accept that the 128-day settlement was over, but a lawyer who has represented Occupy DC said he would "be filing some paperwork" in response to the police action, reports DCist. Some protesters said that even empty tents were confiscated. "With respect to taking tents, this is not what the government attorney promised," the attorney said.