As expected and predicted, the protesters got out of hand, tearing down barricades and inflicting damage on property. 

The Washington Post reports that, shortly before midnight, Thursday, police clad in riot gear arrested 65 anarchists in downtown Washington D.C. Members of the group broke out the windows of some restaurants and at least one bank. Earlier, anti-Bush demonstrators lobbed bottles, trash, and snowballs at police. About 50 demonstrators overturned metal barricades and a handful broke through just after Bush's limousine passed. Other protesters set a small fire and burned an American flag close to the barricades.  Police reported 14 arrests. One report said that the president's motorcade was forced to speed up on at least two occasions along the 1.7-mile trek as it passed the commotion, which included one protester pelting the limousine with what looked like a piece of fruit.

The Post also says about ten protesters were led away by police after shouting antiwar slogans and unfurling banners toward the end of President Bush's inaugural speech.

The official list of speakers at the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally included: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from Georgia; former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition; John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association; Brenda Stokley, President of District Council 7017 AFSCME; Zack Wolfe, chair of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Committee of the National Lawyers Guild; Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network; Vanessa Dixon, DC Health Care Coalition; Sue Neiderer, mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq; Celeste Zappala, mother of Sherwood Baker, National Guardsmen killed in Iraq; and Nathlie Hrizi of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and others. The program was chaired by A.N.S.W.E.R. youth and student organizers Peta Lindsay and Eugene Puryear.

Leftist Will Pitt had some funny observations, stemming from confusion over where the protesters were. One entry on his blog: "4th and Pennsylvania, the alleged big protest site, is empty except for some dog-walkers. Annoying. I am now at 7th and D, and there is a huge crowd of Republicans and protesters bottlenecked at a parade entrance here.." In a subsequen entry: "ANSWER needs to learn how to give directions. The protest gathering is actually at 3rd and D."

Tragically, some protesters did find their way to Washington, D.C.