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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Occupy Crackdown

From NY Daily News:
Hours after baton-wielding cops cleared Occupy Wall Street protesters and their tents from Zuccotti Park, a legal showdown was looming Tuesday.

A judge hand-picked by protest lawyers signed an early-morning emergency order saying the demonstrators can return — with all their stuff.


But the city refused to reopen the park until a Tuesday afternoon hearing on the order signed by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings, a former civil liberties lawyer.


Some Occupy Wall Street protesters had already moved to another public space, owned by Trinity Church, at Canal St. and Sixth Ave., where they used bolt cutters to open a fenced-in area.

Police swooped in and made numerous arrests. Daily News reporter Matthew Lysiak was among several reporters covering the confrontation who were arrested.


Other demonstrators were massed around Zuccotti, where the overnight raid netted the arrest of 200 people, including Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.


The park was eerily clean and empty. The only people inside were employees of property owner Brookfield Properties, which
asked for the city crackdown in a Monday letter to Mayor Bloomberg.


About 50 people had been allowed back in at 8:10 a.m. — before the NYPD closed the park again until the fast-developing legal issues could be sorted out.

A handful jumped the fence to get into the park around 11:30 a.m. and several were arrested.



Jesus man this shit is a mess. I mean the back and forth is ridiculous. Either the people have the right to assemble in the park or they are a public nuisance. I mean it can't be both. Fucking Bloomberg, I'm glad judges are going against his eviction of the protestors. I mean you can't just let them be there for months and all of a sudden they are breaking the law or something. I call bullshit on that.

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