UPDATED 10:10 P.M.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland police and Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers, many dressed in riot gear, arrested at least a dozen protesters and have told the rest to disperse after the protesters tried to enter the posh East Fourth Street area of downtown around 8:40 p.m. Saturday.

The arrests continued into the evening as more protesters were stopped on Euclid Avenue, west of East Ninth Street just after 9:30 p.m. A number of vans were called to the area to cart away those arrested.

Police were seen driving the remaining protesters east along Euclid Avenue, toward East Ninth after the initial arrests, and warning those that lingered that they would be arrested.

The number of protesters had dwindled to around 75 by the time they got to the intersection of Euclid and East Fourth, at the top of the tiny street that is populated by several restaurants. A number of people were eating at outside tables when the protesters got to the area. The previous time the protesters had been in the Gateway area of downtown they had numbered 200.

The protesters had largely been orderly as they marched around downtown and into several nearby neighborhoods after the acquittal of Police Officer Michael Brelo was announced this morning.

As police drove the protesters away from the East Fourth area, people cheered the officers from the Euclid Avenue sidewalks, many recording the action.

It is believed those arrested are being taken to a holding area at the former Aviation high school near Burke Lakefront Airport.

By 9:45 p.m., many of the troopers were being moved from Gateway to where other protesters were continuing their march.

By 10 p.m., officers nabbed another 10 or so protesters near West Ninth Street and St. Clair Avenue. On the police radio, supervisors told officers to arrest the protesters for unlawful assembly, saying the marchers had been told multiple times during the evening to disperse.

Three people had been arrested earlier in the evening.