The demonstrators met at the Lexington Market metro station and walked along the bus routes down town to the MTA headquarters at St. Paul and Baltimore Streets. When I arrived there were about 15 demonstrators, looking kind of exposed and confused, and flanked by about twenty cops. The area's extremely busy, so as we stood there a few people wandered by and decided to join in, people pumped their fists in support as they walked by or asked "Are they raising the fares AGAIN?!" One guy, who was apparently there waiting for the bus, started shouting about how the raised fares were racist and put too much on the poor before becoming upset and running off. After maybe 30 minutes we started off on our march, picking up a couple more people as we went and handing out flyers at the bus shelters along the way. A small group of cops followed along, occasionally telling us to pick up the pace or not to block the sidewalk. It was nearing 5:00 by the time we reached MTA headquarters, so more people showed up as they got out of work an our numbers rose to about 40 people. While only a small number of police followed us on the march, a larger force was waiting, bored, for us when we got to the headquarters. Folks started taking turns on the megaphone, including a young African American man who's running for City Council and a State Senator whose names I didn't catch. I chatted with a couple of the cops (Q: "This must be the most annoying detail to be assigned to, isn't it?" A: "Hmm... yep.") and they asked about why we were marching... nice guys. They didn't want to be there, it was hot and they knew as well as we did that there wasn't going to be any real problem. After a while, someone decided to hand out citations for using the megaphone downtown; the cops seemed to regard this as something of a joke and were actually joking with a couple of the demonstrators about it, but people were upset at the police presence and citations, started making some legal threats and anti-cop remarks, and yelling stuff about the PATRIOT Act that seemed totally off-topic. As things started to wind down, one of the demonstrators started following one of the cops and holding the megaphone mic up to his face as he asked a couple demonstrators to open up the sidewalk. He didn't notice at first, but when he did he got angry and threatened the guy with arrest if he did it again, there was an exchange that I didn't hear, and then there was loud noise and rush of movement as the cop grabbed the guy and pushed him into the cops' ranks to be cuffed. The rhetoric ratcheted up some more, but it was about this time that things really started to die down and we dispersed.