PHOENIX (AP) - Officers are making multiple arrests at a rally in Phoenix protesting Arizona's new immigration law.
Television images show a large group of demonstrators, with another line of about a dozen protesters well in front of them facing a line of police officers dressed in riot gear. The protesters were holding their hands in the air, and officers were taking them into custody.
They were handcuffed, led off and put into police vans. An Associated Press reporter counted at least eight people in handcuffs.
The crowd was chanting "racists go home" as the arrests were being made.
Demonstrators had promised nonviolent civil disobedience at the rally, which was held despite a federal judge's last-minute decision to block the most controversial parts of the measure.