Washington ? Cindy Sheehan wasn’t listening to the State of the Union from inside the gallery.

The mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was taken into custody by police in the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush’s State of the Union address.

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Sheehan was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, a misdemeanor, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. Sheehan was taken in handcuffs to police headquarters a few blocks away and her case was processed as Bush spoke.

Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to the speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said. Police handcuffed Sheehan and removed her from the gallery before Bush arrived. Sheehan was to be released on her own recognizance.

Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., had invited Sheehan to the address as her guest. Woolsey offered Sheehan a ticket to the speech – Gallery 5, seat 7, row A – earlier Tuesday while Sheehan was attending an “alternative state of the union” press conference by CODEPINK, a group promoting the end of the Iraq war.