Three women arrested for trying to unfurl banner on NY bridge

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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Three women were arrested Monday after allegedly carrying a large banner, wrapped in rope, onto the Manhattan Bridge bike path in New York, authorities said.

New York Police Department officers stopped them before the banner was unfurled.

The women — ages 26, 33 and 37 — were taken into custody, police said.

Only one word on the banner was exposed: “VOTE.”

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