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On Mar 18, 9:08 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park
> By COLIN MOYNIHAN
>
> 1:09 a.m. | Updated Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters were
> arrested on Saturday night as police officers swept Zuccotti Park in
> Lower Manhattan and closed it.
>
> Dozens of demonstrators sat down and locked arms as officers moved in
> about 11:30 p.m. The protesters chanted "we are not afraid" as the
> police began pulling people from the crowd, one by one, and leading
> them out of the park in handcuffs.
>
> The operation occurred after hundreds of people had gathered in the
> financial district to observe the founding of Occupy Wall Street six
> months ago. Earlier, protesters had embarked upon a winding march,
> after which police officers made initial arrests of about a dozen
> people near the park.
>
> By 11:30 p.m., as police officers massed on Broadway, a commander
> announced that the park was closed. Those inside shouted back that the
> park was obliged through an agreement with the city to remain open.
> The commander then announced that anyone who remained inside would be
> arrested and charged with trespassing.
>
> After clearing the park, police officers and private security guards
> began placing a ring of metal barricades on the park's perimeter, as
> those who had been arrested were placed inside a city bus.
>
> At one point, a woman who appeared to be suffering from seizures
> flopped on the ground in handcuffs as bystanders shouted for the
> police to remove the cuffs and provide medical attention. For several
> minutes the woman lay on the ground as onlookers made increasingly
> agonized demands until an ambulance arrived and the woman was placed
> inside.
>
> By 12:20 a.m., a line of officers pushed against some of the remaining
> protesters, forcing them south on Broadway, at times swinging batons
> and shoving people to the ground.
>
> Kobi Skolnick, 30, said that officers pushed him in several directions
> and that as he tried to walk away, he was struck from behind in the
> neck. "One of the police ran and hit me with a baton," he said.
>
> Earlier that afternoon, as protesters gathered under blue skies while
> carrying banners and signs, the day was in some ways reminiscent of
> the first time the Occupy protesters gathered in mid-September. Just
> after 1 p.m., brandishing placards with messages like "Take back
> government from corporations," the crowd left Zuccotti Park headed
> south on Broadway, chanting the now familiar slogan "We are the 99
> percent."
>
> When the first protesters set foot in the financial district six
> months ago, few people imagined what would follow, including a
> two-month encampment in Lower Manhattan, similar camps in cities
> across the country and critiques of corporate greed becoming part of
> the national dialogue.
>
> The movement was mainly quiet during the winter, but organizers said
> they were aiming for a springtime resurgence.
>
> "It's just a reminder that we're here," Brendan Burke said, as the
> crowd marched past the New York Stock Exchange. "It's an opportunity
> to remind Wall Street that we aren't going anywhere."
>
> In several respects, Saturday's march was similar to the inaugural
> one. The crowd was small but spirited and marched past the bronze
> sculpture of a bull at Bowling Green, which had served as a mustering
> spot for the first march. Marchers were accompanied by police officers
> on foot and on scooters who at one point blocked access to Wall
> Street, just as they did on Sept. 17.
>
> And, as they did that day, the marchers made sudden turns that
> appeared to surprise the police and walked along Wall Street for at
> least a brief time.
>
> At one point, several demonstrators stood on the steep steps of
> Federal Hall and chanted "1-2-3-4, I declare class war."
>
> Later, members of the group ignored orders from the police to remain
> on sidewalks and flowed onto parts of Exchange Place and Beaver
> Street. Later, on Broad Street, a deputy inspector turned to a
> sergeant and said, "We got to start collaring some."
>
> For the next 30 minutes or so, things remained calm as marchers stuck
> to the sidewalks and entered Zuccotti Park.
>
> But then, just after 2 p.m., police officers began telling a large
> group of protesters that they could not stand on the sidewalk on a
> stretch of Liberty Street. Officers pushed the crowd until more than
> 100 protesters on the sidewalk were pressed against a wall that
> borders the park.
>
> Then the police began grabbing and arresting people, taking into
> custody at least half a dozen. Officers surged into the crowd,
> dragging protesters toward the street, as people yelled objections.
>
> "They were grabbing people randomly," Zachary Kamel said, adding that
> his girlfriend, Lauren DiGoia, had been arrested while dancing on the
> sidewalk.
>
> One sergeant grabbed a woman wearing a green shirt by the bottom of
> her throat and shoved her head against the hood of a car. A moment
> later, another officer approached and forcefully pressed her head
> against the car before placing her into the back of a police truck.
>
> Over the next few hours, protesters conducted meetings inside Zuccotti
> Park and held a dance party fueled by a saxophone and a battery of
> drums. Sporadic moments of tension also arose.
>
> At one point, the police arrested a handful of protesters on Cedar
> Street near Trinity Place. A few moments later, near Cedar Street and
> Broadway, a police captain pushed a man by the shoulders for almost a
> block, then released him when a crowd loudly demanded to know whether
> the man was under arrest.
>
> The man, Charlie Gonzalez, 31, said that the captain had told him he
> was not permitted to stand on the sidewalk.
>
> About an hour later, the same captain pushed another man several
> hundred feet east down Cedar Street, about a block from Zuccotti Park,
> and briefly detained him.
>
> That man, Yoni Miller, 19, said he was counting officers standing in
> rows near Broadway when the captain forced him to walk around a corner
> onto Cedar Street, then asked him if he was a terrorist or was
> planning any crimes.
>
> Paul Moore, 25, said that he was videotaping the encounter when the
> captain asked him for identification and began pushing him away,
> telling him he was not permitted to document what was happening.
>
> After nightfall, the number of people inside the park swelled to more than 500.
>
> About 10 p.m., some of those in the park began a regimen of running
> and dancing that they called "spring training," which they said was
> meant to prepare for coming demonstrations.
>
> At 10:30, protesters sprung up a green tarp, folded over a piece of
> rope suspended from two trees near the center of Zuccotti Park.
> Security and police officers looked on from the perimeter.
>
> More:http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=cdOHbQcFwieSwGnV/swc3pcO+JEZkG...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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