Saturday, October 8, 2011

Breaking - NYPD Fences Off, Pepper Sprays, Beats, Arrests, 200 #OccupyWallStreet Protestors


Today New York’s financial district was filled with a massive crowd of up to 20,000 people protesting against Wall Street on the first march organized with union support.
The protests have been peaceful all day, but now that night has set in there are reports of skirmishes with the police and arrests across the city.
Initial reports, based of NYPD claims, are that a massive crowd is trying to break through the barriers that police have set up to keep protestors from entering Wall Street.
The most high profile incident reported so far today, is one during which the police are reported to have responded to a crowd trying to break through the barricades by pepper spraying the crowd, beating them with batons and fencing them off.
Rumor has it that up to 200 have been arrested so far and a 9 year old was pepper sprayed by the police. Link 

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