Anti-Wall Street protesters take to Wall Street during storm (Day 12)
Image by Dan Nguyen @ New York City
#occupywallst protesters left their campout on Zuccotti Park during a thunderstorm to rally on Wall Street.
(I blame the fuzziness on my camera not being waterproof, as evidenced by it seizing up and not turning on right now)
Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Take Brooklyn Bridge - 700+ Arrested HD Updated, 7:58 pm | In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon. The police did not immediately release precise arrest figures, but said it was the choice of those marchers that led to the swift enforcement. "Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested," said the head police spokesman, Paul J. Browne. "Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested." But many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered. "The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us on to the roadway," said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested. Things came to a head shortly after 4 pm, as the 1500 or so marchers reached the foot of the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the bridge, just east of City Hall. In their march north from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan — headquarters for the last two weeks of a protest movement against what demonstrators call inequities in the economic system — they had stayed on the sidewalks, forming a long column of humanity penned in by ...
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mackie: Are there any similarities with the Wall Street protesters and Tea Party rallies?
How many Tea Party members have been hauled off to jail in comparison to the Wall Street Protesters.Give facts not nasty remarks.
Obama 1 Billion
Tea Partiers were backed by the corporate media beyond what their actual numbers indicated.
Tea partiers were violent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZxvYdYOqWQ
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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