Police early Sunday arrested 16 demonstrators who had been camping in the park that surrounds Salt Lake City Hall to protest the treatment of people experiencing homelessness.
The group, a subset of the activist group Civil Riot called the Take Shelter Coalition, set up tents in Washington Square Park on Thursday, and said demonstrators would stay there until public officials listened to their demands, which include opening a downtown shelter to replace the now-shuttered Road Home and to stop ticketing people for camping.
It took police in riot gear more than three hours to clear them all out.