HUNGER STRIKE DAY 6: Activists 'escalate' action, arrested on US Capitol steps

Dozens of activists were arrested Tuesday after refusing to leave the U. S. Capitol steps.

"This is our house, this is a civil disobedience" activists said as they moved passed Capitol Police officers towards the steps, where they sat and chanted, pleading the Senate pass voting rights legislation.

The group began at Union Station and marched to the Capitol. Many of the 29 arrested, which included one minor, were on the sixth day of a hunger strike as part of their protest.

"Ain't going to let no filibuster turn me around, turn me around," the group, including youth activists, faith leaders, and civil rights organizers sang.

The U. S. Capitol Police gave three warnings before moving in to arrest the demonstrators.

"Preliminarily charges will be crossing a police line, and crowding/obstruction/incommoding," Capitol Police told Fox News. Shana Gallagher, who previously spoke with Fox News, was among those arrested.

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