Katherine Gwaltney was staring at a blank television on a sidewalk outside the Roanoke City Market Building on Thursday when a police officer approached her and five others.

"Anybody walking here has to go around you. So unless you break this up, I am going to consider this an unlawful assembly. Is that understood? Take your TV and leave the area -- now," Officer Reinhold Lucas said.

"Can't you just wait until the next commercial?" Gwaltney said.

Their confrontation ended with Gwaltney's arrest. She is charged with impeding foot traffic and obstruction of justice.

Gwaltney, 27, was just one of about 60 people who participated in the artistic project, "Must See TV," on the market Thursday.

The participants were directed to bring a television to the market in downtown Roanoke. When the Norfolk Southern Corp. lunch whistle blew at 12:30 p.m., they were to stare at the television for five minutes.

If anyone asked what they were doing, their response was to be: "I am watching TV."

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