NEW YORK - Georgi Page was one lonely protester, standing out there on Eleventh Avenue all by herself. She'd come to the Potamkin Hummer dealership expecting to join a crowd of committed environmentalists in a protest against the gas-guzzling ravages of SUVs. Instead, she found a crowd of two dozen news reporters, 40 police officers and three private security guards.
Page was the only one who showed up for Tuesday's demo, and she felt stupid, she said, in the cardboard costume she'd made by painting a box like the front end of an SUV, with the word "Bummer" neatly printed across the grille.
"It really feels like there should be more people here," said Page, a 34-year-old Web producer from Harlem.
It seemed the protest was over before it had begun, and Page was disappointed, she reflected on Wednesday.
But then a policeman stepped up and told her she was obstructing pedestrian traffic.
"You are not going to arrest me," Page responded, but he did. And as she choked back tears, her wrists were gathered into plastic cuffs and she was hustled into a police van.
The Loneliest Protester
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