Protesters arrested in Nashville after attempting to light fire outside War Memorial Building

Natalie Allison | The Tennessean

A group of protesters planning to light a fire outside state property on Monday were arrested during the final week of the Poor People's Campaign.

The six-week long national social justice campaign has prompted repeated arrests of protesters in Nashville.

On Monday, 10 individuals were taken into custody, according to Tennessee Highway Patrol.

The protesters, who had held a religious ceremony in the atrium outside War Memorial Building, just above Legislative Plaza, had placed into a fire pit items that "represented homelessness, systemic racism, poverty, patriarchy, nationalism, imperialism, environmental degradation and mass incarceration" with the intention of burning them, according to a statement from the Poor People's Campaign.

Arrests began while a few dozen protesters were in a circle around the fire pit. According to THP, the protesters had attempted to light the fire.

Jail records show that the protesters were charged with various combinations of disorderly conduct, trespassing and resisting arrest.

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Two of the individuals arrested were taken into custody as they attempted to enter a door that THP said led to the state attorney general's office, which troopers at the scene told protesters was a "private office."

Will York, a Nashville immigration attorney who attended the event, said Monday evening that all 10 of the defendants booked into jail on the charges were released on their own recognizance by a night court judge.

Poor People's Campaign group had planned to paint on windows of Capitol

As part of the interfaith religious ceremony, Alaina Cobb, a woman in costume "representing the Holy Spirit faced off with the God of War statue" erected in the War Memorial atrium, according to a statement from the campaign.

She was among the two arrested while trying to enter an office in War Memorial Building.

The group had also planned to march across the street to the Capitol building to paint descending doves on the building's windows and enter to pray that the "demons of capitalism, systemic racism and nationalism" would be driven out, according to their statement, but canceled the latter portion of the event after arrests took place.

Some of the protesters will travel to Washington, D.C. this week for training and other demonstrations leading up to a rally at the U.S. Capitol Saturday to launch the second phase of the campaign.