Read the excerpt from suffragists' "great demand" banner. in june 1917, the district of columbia police began arresting picketers for obstructing sidewalk traffic. the women would be sentenced to serve in the occoquan workhouse prison in lorton, virginia. in august, scuffles broke out at the gates of the white house as angry spectators assaulted suffragists while city police stood by. the picketing continued. which sentence most accurately describes the sequence of events? during the summer of 1917, picketers were sent to prison and assaulted by spectators, but that did not stop the protesting. a 1917 fight at the white house gates was the first incident that resulted in suffragists being sentenced to workhouses and prisons. police did not act to defend women suffragists in june 1917, and women were sent to the occoquan workhouse prison as a result. picketing continued through august 1917, until citizens attacked women for blocking the sidewalk in washington, dc.