March of the prostitutes

The march of the prostitutes occurred in Washington, D.C in the early morning of July 25, 1989, during which the D.C. police en masse marched their city's prostitutes over the 14th Street Bridge into the state of Virginia. The event followed many years of D.C. police departments transporting prostitutes into areas controlled by other D.C. departments. There were 24 prostitutes reportedly involved in the procession and were threatened with arrest if they stopped walking. The march, which started in Franklin Square, was compared by one onlooker as a "perverted Memorial Day parade". In response, Virginia politicians were outraged, and a prostitute union threatened a lawsuit. For their part, Arlington County police admitted to sending mentally ill and homeless vagrants across the Memorial Bridge into D.C. all the time.