PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia police arrested five people who they said tried to burn a large American flag in Washington Square Park in Society Hill Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
According to police, about 25 people gathered in the square around 6 p.m. Officials said a protest leader placed a large American flag on the sidewalk and doused it with an accelerant. That\u2019s when police officers walked over with a fire extinguisher. <\/p>\n
Police said members of the crowd formed a circle around the officers to block them, and bicycle officers intervened.<\/p>\n
After they parted the crowd and prevented a fire from being lit, police said the crowd refused multiple dispersal orders. <\/p>\n
At that point, police arrested three men and two women for failure to disperse. Officials said the rest of the group left.<\/p>\n
Police said this was the third demonstration of the day; the two previous gatherings were larger but incident-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia police arrested five people who they said tried to burn a large American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,69,71,70,4525],"class_list":["post-236645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fire","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}