Occupy Wall Street Protesters Arrested in Solidarity March
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The scene in downtown New York Wednesday. AP/John Minchillo
The “Occupy” protests taking place across the country heated up as demonstrators in Oakland, Calif., who had been evicted from their camp returned amid heavy police presence while New York protesters were arrested in a clash with officers during a late-night solidarity march.
At least 10 people were arrested in New York late Wednesday, according to NY1, after several tussles broke out as protesters marched up from Zuccotti Park to Union Square in a show of solidarity with demonstrators in Oakland.
Wednesday night’s march began with a general assembly meeting where Occupy Wall Street protesters agreed to release some of their funds and some tents to the protestors in Oakland. The demonstrators then began marching from Zucotti Park around City Hall up Broadway and into the heart of New York’s Soho neighborhood to cheers — and some jeers of “get a job.”
The march quickly turned into a game of cat and mouse between the NYPD and protestors, some of whom were goading police with screams of “no justice, dirty pigs, cops come here.”
Several people were arrested as police unsuccessfully tried to keep protestors on sidewalks. Officers were able to keep demonstrators from marching across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Protestors removed rope lines which police had set up, and eventually the cops allowed them to march and they left the scene.
Once the march reached the West Village neighborhood police reappeared behind the protestors who began to splinter off into smaller groups until eventually the action died down.
While police showed restraint throughout Wednesday’s action, many residents of the neighborhoods which protesters marched through took issue with the NYPD rather than demonstrators. One local woman said that police cursed at her when she asked what was happening.
“It was very upsetting,” she told ABC News. “I asked if I could speak to somebody in charge who could respond to the community. There is such a thing as community policing, where people do respond. They actually used profanity.”
In Oakland Wednesday protesters returned to a relatively peaceful scene where for the previous 24 hours several violent clashes had broken out, leading police to repeatedly use tear gas to disperse crowds. Tuesday morning authorities forcibly removed the tent city in Frank Ogawa Plaza that had been their camp for several weeks.
Crowds grew steadily in Oakland throughout Wednesday and around 7:30 p.m. protesters began to knock down the fences that had been erected around the lawn at Frank Ogawa Plaza, according to ABC News Bay Area affiliate KGO. By 10:30 p.m. Oakland’s City Center BART Station had been blocked off by police.
A crowd of roughly 1,000 gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza listened to speakers criticize city officials while urging the protesters to remain peaceful.
One protester told KGO early Thursday that demonstrators don’t view the police as their enemy.
“They don’t make the decisions and we know that and we look forward to them joining us in this effort because they are part of the 99 percent,” he said.
An Iraq war veteran that suffered a fractured skull as protesters and police scuffled Tuesday has become a figure for what demonstrators are saying is the brutality of Oakland’s police.
Though it is still unclear how U.S. Marine Scott Olson received the injury, Veterans for Peace, the group he attended the protest with, said that Olson was “shot in the head with a police projectile while peacefully participating in the Occupy Oakland march.” He is reportedly sedated at a local hospital and will be examined by a neurosurgeon.
Police Chief Howard Jordan said there will be a full investigation into the incident.
“It’s unfortunate it happened. I wish that it didn’t happen. Our goal, obviously, isn’t to cause injury to anyone,” Jordan said Wednesday afternoon.
Across the country the movement is showing no signs of slowing as camps are still popping up in numerous cities and protesters are continuing to push back on authorities.
With reporting by ABC News’ Seniboye Tienabeso and Enjoli Francis.
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For those of you who don’t understand how things work, may I remind of our our WI gov. Scott Walker’s conversation earlier this year with someone he thought was David Koch. Part of the discussion was about planting ringers in the crowd of protesters to start trouble. You don’t think that this is the only place that could happen, do you?
Posted by: Mike | October 27, 2011, 9:09 am 9:09 am
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
- Cicero , 55 BC
So, evidently we’ve learned nothing in the past 2,066 years.
Posted by: Jerry Hooker | October 27, 2011, 9:42 am 9:42 am
Disobeying the law, getting arrested and getting violent (throwing rocks and bottles) are not very good ways to get the American people behind you. In fact, it has the opposite effect with me.
Defecating in public and on police cars, public sex, illegal drug use, rape, and destroying the property you are on are not good ways to get the people behind you as well. Act like animals, don’t be surprised when you are treated as animals. Pretty simple to me.
Posted by: Ang | October 27, 2011, 10:06 am 10:06 am
@ANG, don’t generalize the entire world of OWS protesters because of a small handful of idiots. But you’re probably the mayor of oaklands bff, or a gorilla minded cop
Posted by: Sara | October 27, 2011, 10:44 am 10:44 am
SARA, a handfull and that with all the pictures ( where do thousands go to the bathrooms???)but you had nothing but disgust for the tea party without pictures.
Posted by: Lizzie | October 27, 2011, 11:18 am 11:18 am
Democrats think the TAXes are PUNISHMENT for being Successful.
All these TV actors (Yes the News readers too) are RICH.
Football and Basketball players are all Rich
OWS kids, don’t worry. your PARENTs will cleanup after you.
Posted by: barry | October 27, 2011, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
If these morons want to protest, that is their right. What is not their right is blocking public roads and sidewalks, damaging property that doesn’t personally belong to them (taxes pay for for police cars, but that doesn’t mean each tax payer owns or has rights to those cars), or general disruption of everyone else’s lives. Anyone that chooses to stand in block a moving vehicle for whatever reason, should be run over by said vehicle. If they are hindering people getting to a home or business, the owners have the right to remove such obstacles in the most efficient manner available.
Posted by: Jenna | October 27, 2011, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
If you people REALLY think that anyone of these protestors is truly being disruptive toward “public affairs” guess again. And if you believe that a single bottle or rock was thrown then congratulations. You officially have the wool pulled so far over your eyes that you are only seeing what they want you to. I challenge any news network or any of you viewers to find a single video showing any sort of agresssion from a single protestor. Most get arrested for nothing or shot in the face with a teargas canister for simply protesting. By the way, that same guy who got shot in the face served 2 tours in the middle east “protecting our freedoms.” he deserves more respect than what those pigs in riot gear gave him.
Posted by: Jake | October 27, 2011, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
“For those of you who don’t understand how things work, may I remind of our our WI gov. Scott Walker’s conversation earlier this year with someone he thought was David Koch. Part of the discussion was about planting ringers in the crowd of protesters to start trouble. You don’t think that this is the only place that could happen, do you?”
…….the Liberal’s way of sowing unrest.
Posted by: politicsisdirty | October 27, 2011, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
RELAX, just a bunch of disgruntled Americans, angry because “big business” is price-gouging while we are in the midst of a horrible recession. You don’t need to move from your cushy-chair, and you get to reap their rewards EQUALLY.
Posted by: arryandan | October 27, 2011, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
PRIVATE SECTOR AMERICAN JOBS:
Taxation from Private Sector employment is the only way Government can be financed without deficit spending. Government employment only generates negative cash flow. This is an indisputable fact: applicable to all economies, not just ours.
The EU financial crisis, like ours, is a direct result of European Union countries exporting domestic (JOBS) manufacturing to China, et al.
As you know President Obama recently appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on American job creation, putting Americans back to work.
American Job Czar?
General Electric is moving its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wisconsin: to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China to relocate a handful of managers, but hire about 200 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year, but paid no taxes. Because of bad press, GE now says it has a small tax liability for 2010.
General Electric, last year invested a total of $2 billion in China, $500 million of which was allocated to what it calls customer innovation centers and now employs more people overseas than it does in the United States.
Apple, the darling of Wall Street: employees thousands of Chinese through Foxconn, a Taiwanese company that produces components for the new IPhone. The labor cost of an IPhone is about $8, “Eight dollars!
The IPhone sold one million (sold out) on the first day it was introduced. The price range $199~~~$650 and it cost $8 to manufacture: on average an astounding $350, net profit on just one IPhone. A $350 million profit in just one day and tax-free.
This is standard modus operandi of all American corporations manufacturing in China and exporting their products to the USA. The list of American corporations sending millions of American jobs to China is endless. Just go to any store in America and try to find a product made in the USA.
There is only one-way to save this economy: CREATE AMERICAN JOBS!!
The Grimes Economic Recovery Plan:
Suspend all so-called free trade agreements immediately. Western Europe and most developed economies much like the USA have exported their manufacturering base for exactly the same reason. Cheap labor.
All developed economies will do the same thing, for the same reason. In truth, formally suspending trade agreements is irrelevant; trade will cease as global manufacturering grinds to a halt.
It’s important to note: this will have no effect on trade with countries where there is wage parity.
This plan will allow for an orderly transition over a period of three years and will fund the entire stimulus plan: (a graduated tax, beginning at 1% for the first 6 months, 2% between, 6 & 9 months, 3 % between 9 & 12 months, 5% between 12 & 18 months, 10 % between 18 & 24 months and 15 % from 24 months & over) on all manufactured imports and outsourced services, i.e.; tech support.
To jump-start this economy, the fund will provide billions to the federal treasury, allowing for a massive infrastructure construction project to begin almost immediately.
The surcharge will force offshore American corporations like General Electric and Apple to relocate all manufacturing and assembly back to this country on all products sold in the USA and pay American wages or pay the surcharge.
Foreign corporations are more than welcome to sell in the USA, as long as they manufacture their products in the USA and pay livable wages.
Posted by: james grimes | October 27, 2011, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
Didn’t realize these folks were still camped out. I guess even at 9% unemployment and 16% underemployment the vast majority of the country is busy supporting their families, trying make ends meet, while the Abbie Hoffman Wannabee Circus parties on. Early snow to hit the Northeast this weekend, should be fun. I’ll wager the false 60′s counter-culture, I-just-want-to-be-part-of-something-cool, don’t really know why I’m here, rebel without a clue, “movement” will go out with a small bang and a smaller wimper in a few weeks.
Posted by: Woody | October 27, 2011, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm
In 2004 MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration System) began registering mortgages. This was the beginning of the current mortgage crisis. All home loans have two important elements the note (the IUO)and the mortgage(the lien on the home).
MERS recorded the mortgage in its name and the note was sold to Wall Street. Wall Street converted the note into a stock or bond. A mortgage is incident to the ownership of the note. When the note was separated from the mortgage the mortgage became a legal nullity and unenforceable. Approximately 65 million homes have these void mortgages. If one of these home owners is sued for foreclosure the home owner has a defense called lack of standing. The case will, in most jurisdictions, be dismissed if the home owner defends against the foreclosure. However, if the home owner refinances the lender gets a chance to fix the problem with a new set of papers. If the home owner then defaults he will not have the valuable defense of lack of standing. Without a good defense to foreclosure the home owner will eventually lose the case and the home. Refinance helps the bank not the consumer home owner.
Posted by: Derrick | October 28, 2011, 12:17 am 12:17 am
Odd wording in the article. How can it be unclear how Scott Olson received his injuries when multiple eye witnesses saw an officer fire a gas canister at him from 10 feet away? We know the crowd was getting unruly (throwing rocks and bottles at the police), and we know the actions of one officer do not represent all police, but that does not mean it was unclear how he received the injury. The circumstances leading to it might be unclear, but it the action itself was observed by many.
Posted by: Kyle | October 28, 2011, 7:39 am 7:39 am
Remember remember the fifth of November, The Peoples Financial Plot, I see no reason why Bankers treason, Should ever be forgot… Pull your money from the banks Nov 3-5
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